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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.
She deserves to be given all the respect that she has given to the current administration.
The "current administration"? You mean Trump and his crony fraud beta traitor children? They deserve ZERO RESPECT, in fact they deserve the gallows and they will get it when Mueller is done with them.
Every single person of any value in the US intel community knows Trump is a traitor and should hang for the good of the country. Every single American patriot knows this. Trump is a fucking traitor.
Anonymous coward -- kind of says it all...
They are smart to go to the source of the hack. And ask nicely!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
"James Borr" all you've said is you're too much of a faggot to actually have anything to say in reply. Suck Putin's dick directly, cut out the middle traitor.
The crappiest crap press around here. I wouldn't take that seriously.
Except mostly incompetently given that they are government workers.
Corporatism != Free Market
Our government allows the US to spy on us, because snooping on one's own people is frowned upon. This "asking for help" is just how German law enforcement circumvents the Fernmeldegeheimnis (privacy of telecommunications). They are not allowed to record everybody's internet traffic, but they can ask someone who does record everything.
You may wonder, they are trying to use the US intelligence service now. Was Germany helpful in the past for example when the Wikileaks cables were published?
Support Eachother, Copy Dutch Property!
By the way she has been fucking over everyone outside (and many inside) Germany. She can go to hell for all I care.
"Governments have been dominated by the corporate entities and citizens have ceased to matter in public policy" true in
Why would anyone put "private data linked to Chancellor Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians" on a network? Corporations do this because they can save a few cents here and there. And they have no reason to protect their customers data.
But - despite the GDPR's supposed focus on privacy - the Germans have displayed that they are a bunch of bumbling fools.
Perhaps the sole purpose of the GDPR was to provide an income stream.
They got what they deserved.
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.
After years of "stopping evil hackers in their tracks" by making possession of hacking tools illegal, and mostly by hoping for the best while furiously clicking in some Internet Explorer input mask, Germany finally wakes up to the real world. Well, not really yet, because Seehofer still hasn't stepped down over this, the BSI still hasn't been disbanded and restarted from scratch (this time with real people), and I guess Munich is still going ahead full steam towards a Windows only administration, because "some essential educational software package really, really requires it". Now they go crying to big Mommy USA, pleading for help, making even bigger fools of themselves in front of the general public (which doesn't really seem to care all that much anyway).
Hint to all Germans: if some right wing nutter can grab this much data from that many politicians across the political spectrum, without most of them even noticing, imagine what the Chinese/Russians/North Koreans are doing to you every day. And sorry, Seehofer, airtight surveillance of all your citizen's internet traffic will not fix that.
Hint to all other Europeans: quit laughing about the silly Germans already, you know you will be next in line if anyone ever cared about you.
Seriously kid, just STFU. The "Orange Man Bad" BS is just so tired now as well as lame.
big social platforms should be regulated to offer universal 2 factor authentication (with FIDO), like google does already;
then only "allowed" devices can access your account, regardless, how weak your password...