District council declares Germany’s first-ever ‘cyber-catastrophe’

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Yahoo Finance – Reuters
By Andreas Rinke
July 10, 2021
BERLIN, July 10 (Reuters) – A district council in eastern Germany has declared a disaster after its computer systems were paralysed by a hacker attack in what the federal cybersecurity watchdog confirmed was the country’s first-ever “cyber-catastrophe”.
Hackers knocked out the IT operations of the municipality of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, on Tuesday, a spokesperson confirmed to Reuters on Saturday.
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