"Security is taking place here: After cyberattack on Kirkel Town Hall – now the mayor says

saarbruecker-zeitung.de

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The town hall in Kirkel remains closed after a cyberattack. Police and external specialists investigate the incident. What is known so far.

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The town hall in Kirkel is closed due to a cyberattack. www.kirkel.de As reported by Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), the IT department of the Kirkel municipal administration discovered a security incident last Friday (March 14). As a result, the entire system had to be reinstalled. The reconstruction is not yet complete, according to the report. The town hall will therefore remain closed indefinitely. Emails will not be answered either. However, t…

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Criminal hackers have paralyzed the IT systems of the municipal old people's homes in Mönchengladbach. Social holding of the city of Mönchengladbach has become a victim of a cyber attack, the municipality announced. The municipal company operates among other things six old people's homes and provides homes and schools with several thousand meals daily. According to a city spokesman, the facilities and the corporate headquarters of the social hol…

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Recently a victim of a ransom-like cyberattack, the town hall of Ostheim, managed to severely limit damage thanks to good reflexes and backups, intends to strengthen itself in the area of cybersecurity, like many other Alsatian municipalities.

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KIRKEL. The Saarland community of Kirkel has become a victim of a cyberattack. As Mayor Dominik Hochlenert (CDU) reported on the community's homepage, the town hall remains closed for the time being. In order to ensure data security and data protection, the IT systems have been isolated, so that the services in the town hall could not be provided as usual. Currently, the investigation is ongoing, [...]