The Brenner Base Tunnel company confirms a cyberattack suffered on October 17

BBT SE, the company responsible for the Brenner Base Tunnel, a rail tunnel under construction between Innsbruck (Austria) and Fortezza (Italy), has confirmed that it suffered a cyberattack, Euronews reported on Saturday.

According to Euronews, the company said the incident took place on October 17 and that it activated its cybersecurity protocols, immediately isolated the affected systems and brought in outside specialists for the forensic analysis.

According to published reports cited by Euronews, the attack may have allowed non-public data to be stolen through the company's internet-connected network. The Austrian newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung, which first reported the attack, said initial investigations pointed to a pro-Russian group known as Everest; the company has not confirmed that attribution in the published information.

Developing story: it is based on a single open source (Euronews). The BBT SE statement still has to be read, and it remains to be confirmed what data was affected, whether the works or their control systems suffered any disruption and who is behind the attack.