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European Central Bank website hacked, extortion attempt

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Dissent

(Update: as a commenter kindly points out to me, this breach was from last July, not this one!)

BBC reports:

The website of the European Central Bank (ECB) has been hacked, with personal information stolen.

The hacker demanded money for stolen data, which included contact information for people who had registered for events at the ECB, the central bank said.

The ECB said that no market sensitive data or internal banking systems were compromised.

Read more on BBC.

I’ve seen no one claiming responsibility for this yet. Anyone know whose hack this is?

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4 thoughts on “European Central Bank website hacked, extortion attempt”

  1. Anonymous says:
    July 24, 2015 at 11:04 am

    thats from 2014

    1. Dissent says:
      July 24, 2015 at 12:51 pm

      Damn, I hate when old items show up in my news feed. Surprised I didn’t have this one already. Thanks!

  2. No Way says:
    July 24, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    OMG For years I have been waiting to catch the all knowing and powerful Dissent in this type of error, and I missed it.

    Anonymous, you do realize Dissent now owes you a coffee. I have never seen Dissent lose a coffee. This may not go down well. I have the shakes.

    1. Dissent says:
      July 24, 2015 at 5:10 pm

      LOLOLOL!

      Back in ’06, when Ziplock & I started PogoWasRight.org, this used to happen to us all the time – him more than me. But it still occasionally trips me up, too.

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