The theft came to light after the central bank
received an anonymous email on Monday night demanding money in
exchange for the addresses.
The hackers broke into a database storing details of people who
had registered for ECB conferences, visits and other events, the
bank said. That database was kept physically separate from
internal systems, it added.
"No internal systems or market sensitive data were compromised,"
the ECB said in a statement.
(Reporting by Eva Taylor; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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