Hacker attack: Email inboxes of left-wing MPs paralyzed after cyber attack

Left-wing members of the Bundestag have fallen victim to a massive attack on their email inboxes. According to information from parliamentary circles, these were flooded with thousands of emails and paralyzed. They could no longer be used. There was talk of a “spam bombing attack”. According to the information, the emails came from different senders, had different subjects and were written in different languages.

Only members of the Left were affected. There were only delays in the Bundestag's email traffic overall because the servers have enough capacity. The aggrieved MPs have now received instructions on how to filter the mass emails. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) was called in.

According to the information, the cyber attack has nothing to do with the possible attack with spying software on the iPhones of government members and MPs. The Apple company had warned about this.