{"id":149593,"date":"2020-05-16T23:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/eu-parliament-says-sensitive-data-of-1200-officials-left-exposed-on-web\/"},"modified":"2020-05-16T23:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:11:01","slug":"eu-parliament-says-sensitive-data-of-1200-officials-left-exposed-on-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/eu-parliament-says-sensitive-data-of-1200-officials-left-exposed-on-web\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament says sensitive data of 1,200 officials left exposed on web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Information about more than a thousand staff and members of the European Parliament has been exposed in what a key lawmaker called a \u201cmajor data breach.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 Parliaments vice president for IT policy, confirmed to POLITICO on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The exposed information \u2014 \u201ca huge amount of data\u201d \u2014 includes sensitive information and encrypted passwords, he added.<\/p>\n

It comes from a system that had been run under the European Parliaments official \u201ceuroparl.eu\u201d domain, Kolaja said, but the data had not been hosted by the institution itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe system in question is a system run by one particular political group and it was data by that political group,\u201d Kolaja said, \u201cand they were immediately made aware of that incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis data has been online for some time now\u201d \u2014 Yash Kadakia, founder of Indian cybersecurity company Shadowmap<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kolaja declined to say which political group was affected. But information seen by POLITICO about the affected server suggested that it is the European Peoples Party (EPP), the largest political faction in the Parliament.<\/p>\n

EPP group spokesperson Pedro L\u00f3pez de Pablo confirmed in an email that a database containing email addresses and passwords had been exposed.<\/p>\n

However, he added, that database was outdated and only contained information \u201cused by the people who [were] subscribed to our old website back in 2018.\u201d That website is no longer in use after the group launched a new website in January 2019, L\u00f3pez de Pablo said.<\/p>\n

Both the EPPs \u201cservers and the current database have not been exposed,\u201d L\u00f3pez de Pablo wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in the case that the people who were subscribed to our website in 2018 used the same password that they had in their e-mails at that time, nothing can happen to them now because in the Parliament the system forces you to change completely your password every three months,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He added that the EPP was \u201ccurrently verifying the list of emails to inform all the people, following [European data protection] rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is serious<\/h3>\n

The security breach was first revealed Friday by Indian cybersecurity company Shadowmap<\/a>, 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 thats part of the Parliaments domain and used by its officials.<\/p>\n

The unprotected data also includes information of thousands of people with links to political parties and institutions, including members of EU agencies and authorities like law enforcement agency Europol, the European Data Protection Supervisor, border agency Frontex and others, Kadakia said.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson of the European Commission, the blocs executive body, said in an email on Saturday that \u201ca large number of users [were] affected, including some users from the Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kadakia flagged the issue to the Parliaments Computer Emergency Response Team on Friday. His company found the data when scanning the internet for unprotected and leaked datasets, which it does as parRead More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n

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