Data breach - European bank’s info “held to ransom”

The European Central Bank has revealed that information including email addresses and contact data has leaked in a data breach – and that the unknown attackers demanded “financial compensation” from the bank in return for not releasing the information, according to the BBC’s report.

Tech Week Europe reports that records for 20,000 people leaked in the breach, which affected a database serving its website. The ECB released a statement pointing out that the database was separate from internal systems, and that “no market-sensitive data was compromised.”

Data breach - European bank’s info “held to ransom”