ShinyHunters claims the hack of the European Commission

2026-03-28T20:51:48Z16531bb8a47c55b5bc1819a912fd0b41d33e391b0ebb6515e2ac00355a154e4a
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What happened

Multiple high‑priority incidents and vulnerability disclosures were reported: cybercriminal group ShinyHunters claims a breach of the European Commission and added it to a Tor leak site, while the Commission separately confirmed and contained a cloud‑hosting incident with no reported impact to internal networks. Iran‑linked actor Handala claims compromise of FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal Gmail (FBI says no government data exposed). CISA added several high‑severity flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (notably F5 BIG‑IP AMP CVE‑2025‑53521, Aquasecurity Trivy CVE‑2026‑33634,

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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16531bb8a47c55b5bc1819a912fd0b41d33e391b0ebb6515e2ac00355a154e4a
Enrichment time
2026-03-28T20:51:48Z
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Yes

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