ECB shuts down one of its websites

It says no market-sensitive data has been compromised during the attack on the Banks’ Integrated Reporting Dictionary

FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank (ECB) shut down one of its websites on Thursday after it was hacked and infected with malicious software. The ECB said no market-sensitive data had been compromised during the attack on its Banks’ Integrated Reporting Dictionary (BIRD), which it uses to provide bankers with information on how to produce statistical and supervisory reports. But it added malware had been injected on the server hosting the site, adding that email addresses, names and titles of the subscribers of the BIRD newsletter might have been stolen. An ECB spokesperson added the earliest evidence found of the attack dated back to December 2018, meaning it had gone undetected for months before being uncovered during maintenance work. “The ECB is contacting people whose data may have been affected,” the ECB said. “The breach succeeded in injecting malware onto the external server to aid phishing activities.”

Published in The Express Tribune, August 16^th, 2019.

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