>Both the German parliamentary committee that oversees the intelligence agencies, and the digital committee scheduled extraordinary meetings to discuss the attack on Thursday, according to parliamentary sources
This is basically all the information contained in the article, there are no details regarding the hack or it's target. Reuters says that German press is blaming APT28, i.e "Fancy Bear".
This is basically all the information contained in the article, there are no details regarding the hack or it's target. Reuters says that German press is blaming APT28, i.e "Fancy Bear".
edit: Here's a German article with more details, citing "sources" http://www.dpa-international.com/topic/sources-foreign-hacke...
>The hack appears to have originated from the APT28 cyberespionage group
>The group used malicious software to target German federal agencies, including the foreign and defence ministries
>Hackers were able to steal data
>The infiltration likely lasted more than a year.