Overview
- The state's justice network failed on Thursday, July 2, leaving courts and public prosecutors unreachable by phone and email for hours.
- The Landesamt für Steuern said a faulty configuration change in its central network infrastructure caused the disruption and that there is no evidence of a cyberattack or data loss.
- The Bavarian Justice Ministry reported that standard services, including mail, phone, Fachverfahren and the electronic file, were restored just after midnight on Friday, July 3.
- Messages sent during the outage were buffered and are being processed, which is causing ongoing delays in electronic legal messaging while urgent cases used alternative routes such as the Justizportal.
- Judicial groups pressed for formal outage plans and redundant systems, and authorities said follow-up fixes and a post-incident review of the centralized hosting model are under way.