EU Parliament says sensitive data of 1,200 officials left exposed on web

guest · May 16, 2020

EU Parliament says sensitive data of 1,200 officials left exposed on web
May 16, 2020
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-...e-data-of-1200-officials-left-exposed-on-web/

Information about more than a thousand staff and members of the European Parliament has been exposed in what a key lawmaker called a "major data breach."

The data includes 1,200 accounts of elected officials and staff, along with another 15,000 other accounts of EU affairs professionals, Marcel Kolaja, the Parliament's vice president for IT policy, confirmed to POLITICO on Saturday.

It comes from a system that had been run under the European Parliament’s official "europarl.eu" domain, Kolaja said, but the data had not been hosted by the institution itself.

“The system in question is a system run by one particular political group and it was data by that political group," Kolaja said, "and they were immediately made aware of that incident.”
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Kolaja declined to say which political group was affected. But information seen by POLITICO about the affected server suggested that it is the European People’s Party (EPP), the largest political faction in the Parliament.
EPP group spokesperson Pedro López de Pablo confirmed in an email that a database containing email addresses and passwords had been exposed.
'This is serious'
The security breach was first revealed Friday by Indian cybersecurity company Shadowmap, whose founder Yash Kadakia told POLITICO that it had discovered files containing data like passwords, job descriptions and other personal information via an internet portal that’s part of the Parliament’s domain and used by its officials.
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guest · May 16, 2020

The issue has been fixed:

Update: The issue has been fixed and the portals have been taken offline. I'd love to understand if appropriate GDPR disclosure and incident handling policies are being followed.
— Yash Kadakia @yashkadakia May 16, 2020
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