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present_arms writes:

News from International Business News says that 20,000 email addresses have been stolen in the attack.

From the article:

The website of the European Central Bank (ECB) has been compromised by hackers, resulting in the theft of email addresses and other contact data.

The ECB claims that no sensitive data was lost as the databases containing the contact details is physically separate from any internal ECB systems.

A spokesperson for the ECB told IBTimes UK that 20,000 email addresses were stolen by the hackers in the attack. It is still not clear who the perpetrators were and an investigation by police in Frankfurt, where the ECB is based, is currently underway.

"The theft came to light after an anonymous email was sent to the ECB seeking financial compensation for the data," a statement on the ECB website read. "While most of the data were encrypted, parts of the database included email addresses, some street addresses and phone numbers that were not encrypted. The database also contains data on downloads from the ECB website in encrypted form."

When I read "While most of the data were encrypted, parts of the database included email addresses, some street addresses and phone numbers that were not encrypted." my thought was "WTF not encrypted?" but there you go.