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Chancellor Angela Merkel Among the Victims of Massive Hack Attack and Data LeakHundreds of members of the German parliament, including the country's chancellor, Angela Merkel, as well as multiple...

It's not clear why the data release wasn't noticed earlier.

Germany has been hit with the biggest hack in its history. A group of unknown hackers has leaked highly-sensitive personal data from more than 100 German politicians, including German Chancellor...

Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have fallen victim to a massive online leak of private data, the government said Friday. "Personal data and documents belonging...

We won't be having a word with local firms until then Germany's top cybersecurity official has said he hasn't seen any evidence for the espionage allegations against Huawei.…

Germany's IT watchdog has expressed scepticism about calls for a boycott of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, saying it has seen no evidence the firm could use its equipment to spy for Beijing, news...

PLAIN TEXT passwords showed up on file-hosting site German chat platform Knuddels.de ("Cuddles") has been fined €20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text (no hash at all? Come on, people,...

Alice becomes Bob Germany has patched a key "e-government" service against possible impersonation attacks, and both private and public sector developers have been told to check their logs for...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday Berlin was boosting military cyber capabilities to respond to Russian hybrid warfare that is targeting its troops deployed on NATO's eastern flank. read more

A quarter of German manufacturing companies reported losing sensitive mobile phone data, according to a Bitkom survey.