Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-07-24 00:00:00
Affected organization: European Central Bank
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The website of the European Central Bank (ECB) is hacked, with personal information stolen. The anonymous hacker claims to have stolen around 20,000 email addresses, and a smaller number of telephone numbers and addresses, relating to people who had registered for ECB conferences and visits.