15 June 2026 - 12:31

Category: IT Fail

Council of Europe loses its data

ShinyHunters has claimed to have stolen a casual 297 GB of data from the Council of Europe, including employee details. Surely another top-tier day for the continent's privacy.

Council of Europe loses its data

Source: SecurityWeek

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Severity: High Mood: Expected

In another shocking turn of events that surprised absolutely nobody, the ShinyHunters group has allegedly plundered the Council of Europe, walking away with a massive pile of employee personal data. This fine international organisation is now facing the threat of a massive public leak because protecting databases is apparently too much of a chore. Mitigating such embarrassing disasters requires actually enforcing strict access controls and monitoring for anomalous outbound transfers, assuming anyone is awake in the security operations center.

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