Bild, Germany's most popular tabloid newspaper, claims that Angela Merkel was the entry point through which over 20,000 government computers and servers were compromised.
Hackers reportedly gained control of the Chancellor's computer, using it to send messages to other targets in order to further spread the attack throughout the German government. The newspaper did not mention how Merkel herself may have been infected.
The attack has put important Bundestag documents in the hands of the cyber-attackers, it is only a matter of time before the information winds up on the various darknet markets.
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