Cyber attacks caused disruptions nationwide Photo: APA/ROLAND SCHLAGER
From BZ/dpa
The first federal states reported disruptions to their websites as early as Tuesday. More followed on Wednesday – including Berlin. The reason is cyber attacks. It is unclear who is behind it.
After Brandenburg, Berlin is also affected by cyber attacks affecting the websites of public authorities.
The websites of the Berlin authorities are therefore slower to access, explained Ralf Kleindiek, State Secretary for Digital Affairs in the Berlin Senate Department for the Interior, on Wednesday to the RBB. The infrastructure is not affected, said Kleindiek. So no data was leaked or stolen.
However, he spoke of the “biggest attack on the websites of the Berlin state administration”. “And this is part of an attack on all of Germany,” said the State Secretary.
For example, reports from the Berlin police could not be published on the Internet on Wednesday. In Brandenburg, the police side has been disturbed since Tuesday morning. Online services are still paralyzed, said a spokeswoman for Potsdam’s police headquarters on Wednesday.
It is probably a so-called DDoS attack, i.e. a targeted overload of attacked servers. The Brandenburg State Criminal Police Office is investigating suspected computer sabotage. Since other federal states are also affected, the police in Brandenburg are in exchange with the Federal Criminal Police Office, it said.