European Parliament Security Breach.

The European Parliament had a data breach with leak of the information about hundreds of officials.

The data breach was discovered in May 2020. More than 200 European Parliament, European Council and European Commission members’ credentials were leaked. More than 15000 users were affected as well, including staff, members of political parties and private institutions.

This is not the first attack that European Parliament is facing. In January 2019 the group Turla APT stole data from hundreds German politicians.

Parliamentary organizations are often a target for cybercriminals. To prevent these attacks more employees awareness trainings are required teaching them about phishing campaigns as well as additional security measures.