According to a media report, unknown persons installed software on computers belonging to the Federal Statistical Office. It is currently being determined whether data has been leaked. The federal IT center classifies the incident as a “serious security incident”.
According to a report, there was another hacker attack on the authority of Federal Returning Officer Georg Thiel. On Wednesday, strangers installed software there that enables external access to servers and file systems, the magazine reported on Thursday. It is currently being determined whether data have been leaked.
The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) classified the incident as a cyber attack in connection with the federal election, the magazine reported. At the IT center of the federal government (ITZBund) it is reported as a “major incident”, ie a serious security incident.
Attack on the Federal Returning Officer’s website at the end of August
According to “Business Insider”, there was an attack on the Federal Returning Officer ‘s website only at the end of August. The site was accordingly bombarded with requests until it was overloaded. A spokesman for the Federal Returning Officer only reported about the incident at the time that the website was “only accessible to a limited extent for a few minutes (…) due to disruption”.
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