German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that seriously information about the involvement of the Russian hacker attack on the Bundestag and her office in Parliament.
This should be thoroughly investigated. It hurts me, to be honest, — said Merkel, speaking at the government hour in the Bundestag.
She stressed that the investigators found a particular person involved in the attacks, and Federal prosecutors issued a warrant for his arrest. Merkel said she is pleased that.
The Chancellor said that he was trying to work on improving relations between Moscow and Berlin, but there are “serious evidence” that the attacks involved “Russian forces”. Merkel called this situation “unacceptable”.
NEWS.ru wrote that German journalists have accused Russian hackers in the attacks on the office of the Chancellor in 2015. Then the attackers got access to a large number of emails. The magazine Der Spiegel believes that the attack is the Russian military intelligence.
In this case the international wanted list announced Russian Dmitry badin. German police believe that the man is a member of the hacker group Fancy Bear. Supposedly it is the GRU.
