Overview
- Officials reported a comprehensive outage from roughly 14:30 to 15:15 local time that disabled internet, intranet and email across the parliament.
- Parliamentary offices said communications stopped and staff relied on private tools to maintain contact and continue work.
- The Bundestag stated that neither an external cyberattack nor an internal technical fault can currently be ruled out.
- IT systems were deliberately shut down and later restarted in the afternoon as remediation and diagnostics proceeded.
- Police briefly restricted some access to the parliamentary complex, and the disruption rekindled concerns shaped by the 2015 Bundestag hack.