European Banking Authority (EBA) has disclosed that it is one of the victims of the recently revealed Microsoft Exchange Server Hack blamed on Chinese State-backed hackers.
Last week Hackread.com reported that Microsoft Exchange Servers were hit by a large-scale cyberattack after Chinese hackers exploited several critical vulnerabilities. Now, it has been revealed that the attack was on a global level and more than 30,000 organizations were targeted.
One among the victims is the European Banking Authority (EBA) which is an independent EU Authority that works to ensure an effective and consistent level of regulation and supervision across the European banking sector.
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EBA maintains the overall financial stability and sure integrity, efficiency, and orderly functioning of the banking sector. However, EBA has now revealed the cyberattack took down all of its email systems.
“As the vulnerability is related to the EBA’s email servers, access to personal data through emails held on that server may have been obtained by the attacker,” EBA revealed in a statement.
The organization initially released a statement on Sunday where it explored the possibility that the attackers may have gained access to personal information stored on the email servers.
The report also included their guarantee of the fact that they will identify what data was accessed and what measures should be taken by the data ..
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