{"id":78060,"date":"2014-07-24T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2014\/07\/24\/241204\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:12:39","slug":"ecbs-public-website-hacked-and-contact-data-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2014\/07\/24\/78060\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB\u2019S public website hacked and contact data stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, July 24. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> The European Central Bank has received a blackmail letter after its public website was hacked and contact data stolen, the bank said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been a breach of the security protecting a database serving (our) public website,&#8221; the ECB said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This led to the theft of email addresses and other contact data left by people registering for events at the ECB.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The central bank insisted that no internal systems or market sensitive data were compromised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The database serves parts of the ECB website that gather registrations for events such as ECB conferences and visits. It is physically separate from any internal ECB systems,&#8221; the statement said.<br \/>\nThe theft came to light after an anonymous email was sent to the ECB &#8220;seeking financial compensation for the data,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While most of the data were encrypted, parts of the database included email addresses, some street addresses and phone numbers that were not encrypted,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The database also contains data on downloads from the ECB website in encrypted form.<\/p>\n<p>The ECB said it was contacting people whose email addresses or other data might have been compromised and that all passwords had been changed on the system as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ECB takes data security extremely seriously. German police have been informed of the theft and an investigation has started,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ECB data security experts have addressed the vulnerability,&#8221; it added. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Central Bank has received a blackmail letter after its public website was hacked and contact data stolen, the bank said on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[12676,13687,12760],"class_list":{"0":"post-78060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-ecb","10":"tag-hacker","11":"tag-website"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}