08/03/2021 (Agence Europe) – The European Banking Authority (EBA) announced on Sunday 7 March that it was one of the victims of the cyber attack that targeted Microsoft Exchange corporate messaging in several organisations around the world. “As the vulnerability is related to the EBA’s email servers, access to personal data through emails held on that servers may have been obtained by the attacker” it said in a statement. The EBA states that it quickly launched an “in-depth investigation”, and is in the process of identifying the data to which the attacker could have had access. It will provide information on measures that data subjects might take to mitigate possible adverse effects. As a precautionary measure, the EBA has decided to take its email systems offline. (MF)