Overview
- The outage began on Thursday, July 2, and left central phone lines and email for Bavarian courts, public prosecutors and the justice ministry unreachable for hours.
- Authorities traced the fault to a faulty configuration change in the Landesamt für Steuern data center’s central network infrastructure.
- Officials said there is no sign of a cyberattack and that no data was lost, stolen or exfiltrated according to the tax office’s spokesperson.
- IT-dependent court workflows were restricted while technicians work to restore services, causing delays in routine judicial communications and access for the public.
- Restoration is expected shortly and authorities are investigating the procedural cause of the configuration change to prevent similar central failures in the future.