Germany Reportedly Seeks US Assistance After Hacking Breach (bloomberg.com)

German authorities sought help from the U.S. National Security Agency after discovering that hackers had released private data linked to Chancellor Angela Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians, Bild newspaper reported. From a report: Responding to the biggest data dump of its kind in the country, German investigators wanted the U.S. intelligence agency to lean on Twitter to shut down profiles with links to the data, Bild said, citing unidentified security officials. German authorities argued that U.S. citizens were among thousands of people exposed by the data dump. As investigators seek to find out how data including email addresses, mobile phone numbers and private chat protocols were exposed, politicians took aim at Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, known as BSI, for failing to respond after receiving initial indications in December.

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it could be worse

[slashmydots]

At least they didn't leak the new crime statistics now that Merkel let dangerous, unfiltered Islamic refugees into the country. Now THAT would be damaging.

Re:it could be worse

[yuriklastalov]

It's easy to show a drop in crime when you change the way crimes are reported to manipulate public opinion. You see if we don't collect information about the ethnicity or religion of perpetrators, then there cannot be a correlation of crime rates to those populations! For what crimes that stubbornly remain, refusal to investigate ensures that such crime can be ignored by simple under reporting. What's left is a measure of crimes by the native population and a reliable way to shame and demoralize them into whatever machinations the globalist elites wish to pursue.