Hackers Leak Details of German Lawmakers, Except Those on Far Right Saturday January 5th, 2019 at 7:59 AM
Hackers Leak Details of German Lawmakers, Except Those on Far Right Saturday January 5 th , 2019 at 7:59 AM 1 Share BERLIN — After hackers, later determined to be working for Russia, broke into Parliament’s main computer network three years ago, the government vowed to fortify its cybersecurity. The authorities schooled lawmakers about changing passwords, using two-step identification and other measures to protect online data. But on Friday, nearly 1,000 lawmakers and other prominent Germans, including rappers, journalists and internet personalities, awoke to find links to their street and email addresses, private chats from social media, bank account details and pictures of their children published on Twitter, in another major breach aimed at the country’s political establishment. All those attacked had a history of criticizing the far right, whose politicians appeared to be spared, raising suspicion that the hacker or hackers wer...