Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: Bundeskanzlerin
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: CyberBerkut
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Ukraine
Description: The Pro-Russian Hacker Group CyberBerkut claims to have taken down the website of Merkel's government seat (bundeskanzlerin.de) and the website of Germany's legislative body (bundestag.de).