According to the central bank, ECB President Christine Lagarde has been the victim of a cyber attack. “We can confirm that there has been an attempted cyber attack on the president recently,” a spokeswoman for the European Central Bank said in Frankfurt on Tuesday.
According to the spokeswoman, the attack was “quickly recognized and stopped. No information has been compromised. We can’t say more as the investigation is still ongoing.”
According to information from the online portal “Business Insider”, unknown persons have been trying to take over celebrity accounts on WhatsApp and other messenger services for weeks. According to a report from the portal on Tuesday, Lagarde was contacted with what appeared to be the real cell phone number of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
According to the report, Lagarde asked the former chancellor just to be sure if she really wanted to communicate via WhatsApp. So the dizziness was visible. “Business Insider” refers to sources from German government circles, there is no official confirmation of the information.
Source: Krone
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