Germany Says China Was Behind a 2021 Cyberattack on Government Agency

An investigation has determined that 'Chinese state actors' were responsible for a 2021 cyberattack on Germany's national office for cartography, officials in Berlin said Wednesday. From a report: The Chinese ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry for a protest for the first time in decades. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Sebastian Fischer said the German government has 'reliable information from our intelligence services' about the source of the attack on the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, which he said was carried out 'for the purpose of espionage.'

'This serious cyberattack on a federal agency shows how big the danger is from Chinese cyberattacks and spying,' Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement. 'We call on China to refrain from and prevent such cyberattacks. These cyberattacks threaten the digital sovereignty of Germany and Europe.' Fischer declined to elaborate on who exactly in China was responsible. He said a Chinese ambassador was last summoned to the German Foreign Ministry in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

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