Overview
- The failure began in mid‑afternoon around 14:30–15:15 and cut internet, intranet, e‑mail, shared drives and printers across the parliament.
- The Bundestag administration shut systems down and later rebooted them, and by evening a spokesman said operations were running again.
- The Federal Office for Information Security was brought in, and officials have not attributed the incident as both external attack and internal fault remain possible.
- The disruption coincided with Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meetings in Berlin, and police briefly restricted entry for some authorized visitors according to reports.
- A planned video link between EU foreign ministers in Brussels and US envoys in Berlin failed due to connection problems, with no confirmation of any cyberattack.