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posted by martyb on Saturday July 26 2014, @12:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-was-the-opt-out-checkbox-again? dept.

RT reports that:

Hackers have stolen personal information from the European Central Bank (ECB) in what seems to be a blackmail scheme. The stolen data includes email addresses and contact information taken from the organization's database.

"There had been a breach of the security protecting a database serving its public website," ECB said in a statement on Thursday. "This led to the theft of email addresses and other contact data left by people registering for events at the ECB."

Around 20,000 email addresses were stolen, according to media reports.

The hacked database serves the public website and gathers registrations for conferences and other visits. It is "physically separate from any internal ECB systems."

This is slightly more serious than denying access to a website because 20,000 individuals may be targeted by fake messages.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @03:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @03:39AM (#74070)
    Give me a computer and i can rob a bank. Give me a bank and i can rob the world.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @05:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @05:01AM (#74079)

    yeah, the daily heil and now rt.com? what next faux news?

    heres a link to the bbc reporting the same ...

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28458323 [bbc.com]

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @05:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @05:42AM (#74088)

      RT is good as long as they aren't reporting on something that impacts Putin's interests.
      Just like Al Jazeera is top-shelf, as long as they aren't reporting on Qatar.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @06:25PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 26 2014, @06:25PM (#74229)

        So are BBC, CNN, HufPost, WSJ, Times, Guardian, etc. as long as it's not about some geo-political agenda of the Anglo-Saxon world.