"Threat Actor Claims Major Europol Data Breach"

A well-known threat actor is starting to sell what they claim to be a legitimate trove of highly sensitive internal data stolen from Europol this month. "IntelBroker" recently took to the hacking site BreachForums to advertise their wares. IntelBroker claimed that in May 2024, Europol suffered a data breach that led to the exposure of FOUO and classified data. IntelBroker noted that the "compromised data includes alliance employees, FOUO source code, PDFs, documents for recon and guidelines." IntelBroker alleged that several agencies within Europol were impacted by the breach, including its European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), data sharing initiative the Europol Platform for Experts (EPE), the Law Enforcement Forum, and electronic evidence platform SIRIUS. The threat actor apparently provided some screenshots of the EPE interface and a small sample of an EC3 database. It is currently unclear whether the data dump is legitimate, although several security industry professionals seem to think so.

Infosecurity Magazine reports: "Threat Actor Claims Major Europol Data Breach"