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- Berlin's state government has confirmed a data extortion attack on its state administrative network and says it will not pay the ransom.
- The Rhysida hacking group listed Berlin on its darknet leak site on August 28, claiming to have stolen 5.79 terabytes of data and personal information on 12,076 people.
- Data was taken from the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and Environment between August 7 and August 12, and the full scope, including whether personal data is involved, is still being examined.
- Berlin has published no figure for how much data left the network and, as of August 29, had issued no guidance for people whose records may be affected.
- Interior Senator Iris Spranger said no data relevant to the September 20 state election left the network and that the election environment is regarded as secure, which matters because the ransom refusal tests whether authorities' transparency holds up against extortionists.
What to watch next
- Whether Berlin's data protection commissioner issues guidance for people whose records may be in the stolen data.
- Updates on the scope and content of the exfiltrated data from the Senate Department for Mobility.
- Whether the Rhysida leak site publishes any of the claimed Berlin data or a ransom figure.
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Kai Wegner
Governing Mayor of Berlin
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“The state of Berlin is being blackmailed”
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…28 that claims 5.79 terabytes of data and personal information on 12,076 individuals. The Senate's two releases on the incident carried no guidance for people whose records may be among the data as of August 29. " The state of Berlin is being blackmailed ," Governing Mayor Kai Wegner said after a special Senate session at the Rotes Rathaus, quoted in the machine-translated English version on Berlin's official city portal. The Senate Chancellery's statement said that the…
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Named Germany · Berlin Senate Chancellery · BSI · Der Spiegel · FBI · Iris Spranger · Kai Wegner · Rhysida
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