Breaches and incidents
Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstaetten: second attack takes all memorial websites offline
rbb24 reports (8 Oct), citing the foundation, that after a cyberattack on Monday evening its websites, those of its seven memorial sites and some project...
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What happened
- rbb24 reports (8 Oct), citing the foundation, that after a cyberattack on Monday evening its websites, those of its seven memorial sites and some project pages were taken offline; the extent of the damage is being investigated. This follows a ransomware attack on the foundation’s IT in early August 2026.
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- The foundation filed a complaint with the Brandenburg LKA and informed state cybercrime and IT security bodies and the data protection authority; deputy director Andrea Genest expected the sites to be down for at least a week.