The protection measures for a database used for serving the public website of the European Central Bank (ECB) have been bypassed, the intruder(s) stealing contact information of individuals registered for different events.

The announcement, which has come out today, informs that the intruders have contacted the ECB officials and demanded a ransom in exchange for the data. There is no specification about the amount requested.

It appears that the nefarious act became known after the intruders sent their ransom demand to ECB.

As far as the details accessed are concerned, these were stored separately from any internal ECB system and were not fully encrypted; email addresses, street addresses and phone numbers are accessible in plain text.

The news release states that no market sensitive data was compromised, and that the information on the downloads from the European Bank Website was encrypted.

“The ECB is contacting people whose email addresses or other data might have been compromised and all passwords have been changed on the system as a precaution,” say the officials.

German Police has been informed of the incident and an investigation has been started in order to identify the intruders, who leveraged a vulnerability that has since been addressed on the ECB systems.
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