Austria's Ministry of the Interior (BMI) suffered a targeted and professional cyberattack resulting in the breach of 100 out of 60,000 government email accounts. While the exact type and volume of stolen data remain undisclosed, officials confirmed no Austrian personal data or law enforcement information was compromised. The attack was detected after IT operations identified irregularities in one of the ministry’s systems, prompting a disconnection of affected systems from the internet for cleanup. Backup communication measures were implemented to maintain operations with law enforcement. The investigation, led by Austria’s Federal Criminal Police Office and public prosecutor, is ongoing, with no attribution yet to a specific hacking group or nation-state. The BMI emphasized that police operations were unaffected, though some services remain disrupted. The attack aligns with broader trends of state-backed cyberespionage, particularly from actors like China, which has targeted government email systems via vulnerabilities in platforms like Microsoft Exchange Server. The breach follows recent warnings from the Five Eyes alliance about global espionage campaigns, including those by the Chinese group Salt Typhoon, which compromised telecom firms in over 80 countries.