| Title | European Central Bank Hacked - Personal Data Stolen | |
| Date | Saturday July 26 2014, @12:48AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| 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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