Germany's military-run transport fleet hacked

guest · Aug 16, 2020

Germany's military-run transport fleet hacked
Germany's state-owned vehicle fleet, which provides chauffeurs for parliamentarians and is run by the Bundeswehr military, has been hacked
August 16, 2020
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-military-run-transport-fleet-hacked/a-54584239

Germany's Bundestag administration and federal parliamentarians were told Friday that unknown hackers had infiltrated the FuhrparkService (BWFU) transport fleet, reported the Sunday newspaper BamS (Bild am Sonntag).

"Last week, there was an attack on the company's IT network by an as yet unidentified external party," Germany's defense ministry added on Saturday.
Headquartered at Troisdorf, near Bonn, the BWFU is run by Germany's Bundeswehr military and comprises 33,500 vehicles, including trucks, and chauffeur-driven cars assigned to parliamentarians, including those in Berlin.
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A 'serious' incident
The German defense ministry on Saturday said the hacking incident notified on Thursday resulted immediately in all electronic links to clients, including the ministry itself, the military and the federal parliament, being capped.

Also involved was another Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT) of Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) based in Bonn.
Initial checks of the Bundeswehr military's own dedicated electronic network had shown no damage.

"At present, it is not known when the data center was compromised for the first time, whether data was manipulated or whether data was siphoned off," the letter stated.
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