{"id":433,"date":"2019-08-20T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerothcode.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:04:00","slug":"european-central-bank-shutsdown-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerothcode.com\/blog\/european-central-bank-shutsdown-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"European Central Bank Shuts Down ‘BIRD Portal’ After Getting Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

European Central Bank Shuts Down ‘BIRD Portal’ After Getting Hacked<\/h2>\r\n
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European bank hacked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

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The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed Thursday that it had been hit by a cyberattack that involved attackers injecting<\/p>\r\n

malware into one of its websites and potentially stealing contact information of its newsletter subscribers.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Headquartered in Germany, the European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the 19 European Union countries<\/p>\r\n

which have adopted the euro and is itself responsible for supervising the data protection practices of the banking system across these countries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In an official statement\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0Thursday, the ECB said unknown “unauthorized parties” had managed to breach its Banks’<\/p>\r\n

Integrated Reporting Dictionary (BIRD) website, which was hosted by a third-party provider, eventually forcing the bank to shut down the site.
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Launched in 2015, BIRD is a joint initiative of the Eurosystem to the euro zone’s central banks and the banking system,<\/p>\r\n

which provides banks with a precise description of the data that aims to help to report agents efficiently organize information stored in their internal systems and fulfill their reporting requirements.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At the time of writing, the\u00a0BIRD website<\/a>\u00a0displays a page informing visitors that the site is down for maintenance at the moment<\/p>\r\n

and will be back online shortly. However, it doesn’t mention anything about the security incident.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The BIRDS website appears to have been hacked several months ago on December 2018, according to a Reuters report,<\/p>\r\n

but the ECB discovered the breach just late last week during regular maintenance work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Unknown hackers managed to install malware onto the external server hosting the BIRDS website to host software for phishing<\/p>\r\n

attacks, which may have allowed them to walk away with the email addresses, names and position titles of 481 subscribers of the site.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The ECB assured its users that the stolen information does not include their passwords and that “neither ECB internal systems nor market-sensitive data were affected”<\/p>\r\n

in the breach since the BIRDS website is physically separate from other external and internal ECB systems.
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The ECB said that it “takes data security extremely seriously” and have already informed the European Data Protection<\/p>\r\n

Supervisor about the incident. It has also started contacting people whose data may have been affected.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If you are one of those affected users, you are advised to beware of phishing emails and follow standard security practices while browsing online.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This is not the very first time when the European Central Bank has been hit by a security breach.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The ECB suffered a data breach in 2014 as well, when hackers managed to compromise its database serving its public website,<\/p>\r\n

leading to the theft of email addresses, phone numbers and other contact details of people registering for events at the ECB.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The attacks on banks have been increased in recent years, but till now, the central bank of Bangladesh experienced the\u00a0world’s biggest cyberattack\u00a0that took place in 2016 when cybercriminals\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

successfully stole $81 million\u00a0from the country’s central bank account at the New York Fed while attempting to\u00a0transfer $951 million.<\/p>\r\n

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