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After hacker attack: Acute threat to Berlin's administration averted: In the hacker attack on the Berlin administration, huge amounts of data were stolen and ...
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Hacker attack: How the transport authority plans to help affected employees: In the hacker attack on the Berlin Senate Administration, cybercriminals stole ...
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Berlin wants to strengthen IT security after cyberattack: Following the cyberattack, the Berlin Senate is focusing on improvements to IT security ...
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Hacker attack in Berlin - | Access data was published: After the cyberattack on Berlin's state network, the perpetrators published internal access data ...
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Failure of the state and federal governments?: Von Notz: Berlin hacker attack will cost taxpayers millions
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Hacker attack on Berlin administration: Hackers apparently did not steal highly sensitive data in Berlin
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Cyberattack on Berlin could have bigger consequences than previously thought: Around 1.44 million files from the Berlin administration have been on the darknet ...
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Blackmailers post sensitive Berlin data online: These are the dangers now: The state of Berlin did not give in to the blackmail attempts of a criminal hacking ...
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Berlin hacker attack: What dangers threaten after leaked data?: The state of Berlin did not give in to the extortion attempts of a criminal hacker group - | now ...
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Berlin: Hackers post sensitive data on the darknet – | what this means: Hackers in Berlin have stolen 5.8 terabytes of files, some containing sensitive data ...
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Key Facts5.8 Terabytes from Berlin Senate Administrations Reach Darknet
Sep 5, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: fr.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: fr.de
- After the ultimatum expired, about 1.44 million files were published; Berlin’s transport and housing departments were affected.
- According to Tagesspiegel, the material allegedly included critical-infrastructure data on heating plants, substations, prisons and waterworks.
- The Rhysidia group claimed responsibility and demanded 30 Bitcoin, but Berlin’s state government refused to pay the ransom.
- Werner Graf and Elif Eralp criticized crisis management; Eralp called for a major-incident declaration before the September 20 election.
You are running desolate cybersecurity. You must urgently fix your security processes.— Manuel Atug, founder and spokesperson of AG Kritis, told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA); he warned that security gaps are serious and that neglect of security would have grave consequences.
Berlin Senate not paying - | sensitive data now on the darknet: After an ultimatum expired, the hacker group Rhysida published several terabytes of data from the ...
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Hacker attack in Berlin: “An absolute catastrophe”: The criminal hacker group Rhysida has posted sensitive data from the Berlin state network on the darknet ...
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Hacker attack on Berlin's state network: Citizen data likely affected: The state of Berlin is being blackmailed following a large-scale cyberattack on the ...
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Cyberattack on Berlin: What could happen to the data: An extortion gang has leaked confidential data from the Berlin administration. A CCC spokesperson describes ...
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Hacker group blackmails Berlin after data theft: Following the data theft in a hacker attack, the state of Berlin is being blackmailed ...
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Emergency plans and passwords stolen?: Wegner rejects extortion ultimatum - | Hackers demand two million euros, according to media reports
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Cyberattack on Berlin administration: Hackers demand around two million euros and threaten to publish sensitive data.
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State of Berlin confirms extortion attempt - | Hackers apparently demand Bitcoin: Kai Wegner (CDU), Governing Mayor of Berlin, and Iris Spranger (SPD) in the Red ...
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Hacker attack on Berlin state network - | “We are practically unable to work”: Hackers have attacked two Berlin Senate departments, the one for construction and ...
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Cyberattack on housing cooperative: Sensitive tenant data targeted?: Cybercriminals use malware to encrypt systems in order to extort money. (Symbolic image)
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