E.C.B. headquarters in Frankfurt. No market-sensitive data was compromised by a recent episode of hacking, the central bank said.CreditDaniel Roland/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank said on Thursday that hackers had broken into one of its databases and stolen information about journalists and others, in what appeared to be part of a blackmail scheme.
The central bank said that the information stolen was from people who have registered for central bank events, which include news conferences or gatherings of people from other central banks in Europe or elsewhere. The information contained relatively harmless data like names, email addresses and telephone
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Editor's note: This is the first article in a series on law firms' efforts to secure client data.
Forget client service or rate flexibility. If a law firm wants to get, or even keep, business, data security plans are often now the price of admission.
Corporate America is increasingly looking to ensure its outside counsel are handling client data just as securely as the clients themselves do.