Overview
- The city discovered the cyberattack on Monday morning and immediately took all municipal servers offline to stop further damage.
- With servers down, email, telephone and routine Rathaus services are not working and the town hall is closed to regular public business.
- An emergency hotline and an on-site information point have been set up for urgent needs, and the city is using its intact homepage for official updates.
- Forensic teams from the Landeskriminalamt and local police have been working at the Rathaus, but it is still unknown whether any data were exfiltrated.
- Officials warn residents to scrutinize invoices and communications that appear to come from the city because fraudsters often exploit such disruptions, and the outage could cause delays in documents like death certificates.