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Ordering pizza has put the personal data of thousands of Europeans in danger. Hackers are holding over 600,000 Dominos Pizza customer records for ransom in France and Belgium. The hacker group Rex Mundi accessed 592,000 French customer records and about 50,000 more in Belgium and is threatening to publish the information if they dont receive about $40,000 USD (€30,000). The deadline given Monday evening at 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. Eastern.) Andrew Rennie, chief executive of Domino’s Pizza Enterprises in Europe, has said Dominos has no plans to pay the hackers: “We refuse to be extorted and we are not going to play that game. The hack found information that is readily available on social media: names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and favorite pizza toppings.