Hackers are increasingly penetrating the computer networks of hospitals and other vitally important organisations in Germany, according to a newspaper report. The federal government registered 43 successful attacks on healthcare providers by early November, the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported in a text seen in advance by dpa.
That figure is more than twice as many as in the whole of 2019 and it was given in a response by the federal government to a request from the opposition Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary group, from which the newspaper quotes. Often, cyber criminals encrypt data from hospitals and other facilities and then demand a form of ransom for the release of the data.
