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Re:Germany says its government computers secure after “isola... by ryanlol on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:39PM (#16487289)
>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".

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.

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Re:Germany says its government computers secure after “isola... by joethebro on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:39PM (#16487878)
>The infiltration likely lasted more than a year.

Wow, that's pretty significant... How was it only now they caught on?

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Re:Germany says its government computers secure after “isola... by johannes1234321 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:45PM (#16488370)
There are reports telling that the attackers were observed for some time and potentially got honeypots with insnsitige data served.

However there are no formal reports published, so mostly rumors and speculation. The parliament's security council should receive a (non-public) report soon, only after full analysis there might be some public information released ...

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Re:Germany says its government computers secure after “isola... by blattimwind on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:44PM (#16487918)
Infosec on federal and state level is generally regarded as very poor. Hardly unique to Germany, though.
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Re:Germany says its government computers secure after “isola... by lostmsu on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:21PM (#16488215)
I would not say it is uncommon though. AFAIK intrusions into major companies like Google also happen to stay unnoticed for months.
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