Overview
- Two senatorial administrations were disconnected from the state network last Friday and remain offline while forensic teams work to contain the attack and restore systems.
- The Senatskanzlei initially reported that data flowed out but Mayor Kai Wegner said that, so far, no sensitive data are known to have been stolen and investigators from the LKA, the Staatsanwaltschaft and the BSI are probing the incident.
- The attack has halted citizen services such as housing benefit applications and payments and briefly interrupted briefwahl access that has since been restored.
- CDU finance senator Stefan Evers and other politicians are demanding a central digital budget and a Chief Digital Officer with authority over departments to end the current patchwork of 'island' IT systems.
- Berlin’s Security Operations Center at the IT-Dienstleistungszentrum covers only part of the administration and analysts say years of decentralized responsibility and recent cuts to digitalization funding left the city more exposed.