European Parliament takes app offline after breach discovered.
The European Parliament has disclosed a security breach in an external recruitment application that went unidentified for months.
The compromised application named 'PEOPLE' collated sensitive information for around 8,000 candidates for temporary positions (including parliamentary assistants and contractual agents) and provided them with details about the recruitment process.
According to Euronews, the Parliament said its infrastructure was not compromised, but the extent and the origin of the breach remain unknown.
The breach was only uncovered two weeks ago - as the European Parliament increased its cybersecurity in preparation for the upcoming June European elections.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
