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 the email addresses, names and titles of the subscribers of the BIRD newsletter might have been stolen. An ECB spokesman added the earliest evidence found of the attack ... (full story)