Hackers hit the European Central Bank

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.itpro.co.uk/security/22771/hackers-hit-the-european-central-bank

By Clare Hopping
ITPro.co.uk
25 July, 2014

Hackers targeted the European Central Bank on Monday, stealing personal 
information data after requesting a ransom.

The hacker, whose identity is not known, stole 20,000 email addresses, 
plus telephone numbers and addresses.

The details are said to belong to people who registered for ECB events and 
although some of the data the company held was encrypted, email addresses, 
phone numbers and physical addresses were not.

However, the personal data was held in a separate database to 
market-sensitive information that was said to be secure and was never 
compromised.

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