Brit arrested for cyber attack on a million German homes last year
A British national has been arrested at a London airport on suspicion of staging a cyber-attack on Deutsche Telekom last year that knocked around a million German households offline, officials in both countries said Thursday.
600,000 car-sharing users' details stolen in cyber attack
Hundreds of thousands of users of a now defunct German car-sharing website have had their bank account details stolen by hackers, it was announced on Tuesday.
Foreign state 'aims hack attack' against top politicians
Several German political parties were the target of hacker attacks over the summer, with a foreign government suspected to be behind them, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.
German government attacked by hackers 20 times a day
Cyber attacks on the German government and businesses are becoming ever more sophisticated and effective, security experts warn.
Study: 1 in 5 big firms attacked by hackers
One-fifth of Germany’s major companies has been attacked by hackers within the past three years, but companies are also not taking cyber security as seriously as they should, according to a study released on Monday.
Police hacked after top cop rows with daughter
A hacker attack which infiltrated Germany’s federal police computer system using Trojan programs and a system of routes via Russia last summer was due to a row about internet usage between a top cop and his daughter.