A ‘grim warning’: Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of Swiss-based ImmuniWeb, said that while the attack “may appear to be pretty banal on its face, there are several things to pay attention to.”Referring to the Bleeping Computer report, he said that, given that the attackers allegedly plan to release the data, their key intention here is to visibly hurt and to cause reputational damage.”The attackers behind are either hacktivists or cyber mercenaries hired by a nation state,” he concluded. “In view of the geopolitical turbulence around the globe, such attacks will probably surge in 2026. The problem is that in such cases, attackers rarely consider their costs and may persistently invest time and efforts in sophisticated hacking campaigns against the most protected organizations. Organizations should urgently prepare themselves for an avalanche of politically motivated attacks with highly destructive consequences this year.”Combined with the previous history of similar incidents impacting the European Commission and other EU bodies, this incident “is a grim warning that the European regulation of cybersecurity, that some experts perceive as excessive and unnecessarily complicated, is not a panacea against data breaches,” he added. “Whilst cloud data breaches are quite widespread, and have already affected thousands of large organizations in 2026, this incident may be leveraged by the opponents of further overregulation of the European data protection landscape.”Kolochenko also said that European companies may utilize this incident to promote digital sovereignty and “EU-made” cloud. “While data storage in Europe, under management of European cloud providers, will quite unlikely make any material change of cloud security landscape, some organizations may be tempted leave American vendors in favor of their European competitors,” he said.
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