German govt websites, including Merkel's page, attacked: spokesman
The attack has been blamed on ‘a variety of external systems’
German government websites including Chancellor Angela Merkel's page have been attacked, rendering them inaccessible at times since 1000 am (0900 GMT), a spokesman said on Wednesday.
“Our service provider's data center is under a severe attack that has apparently been caused by a variety of external systems,” Steffen Seibert told a government news conference.
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