European Commission (*.europa.eu)

European Commission (*.europa.eu) was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to shinyhunters in March 2026. The organization, operating in the Government sector in Unknown, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

shinyhunters operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

Over 350 GB+ of data was compromised, including data dumps of mail servers, databases, confidential documents, contracts, and much more sensitive material. | Size: 350GB+ (uncompressed) | Updated: 28 Mar 2026 | SHA256: 697c5cfbc64fa5cfbe3dd59a5cb4a2ee10ade8c53ef4c36f3ab3c7e1e35ff66e

Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2026-35273, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.