https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed German giant Deutsche Telekom is warning customers to change their passwords after finding that up to 120,000 customers' data was being sold on the black market. https://www.thelocal.de/20160627/telekom-warns-customers-to-change-passwords-after-phishing-scam Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:32:03 +0200 telekom-warns-customers-to-change-passwords-after-phishing-scam One-fifth of Germany’s major companies has been attacked by hackers within the past three years, but companies are also not taking cyber security as seriously as they should, according to a study released on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150727/one-in-five-big-german-firms-has-been-hacked Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:09:04 +0200 one-in-five-big-german-firms-has-been-hacked The victims of Germany’s biggest ever data theft were being informed on Monday if their email account had been hacked. Authorities said 18 million email account details were taken and launched a webpage for people to check. https://www.thelocal.de/20140407/victims-informed-about-huge-data-theft-in-germany-18-million-email-accounts-hacked-2 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:44:00 +0200 victims-informed-about-huge-data-theft-in-germany-18-million-email-accounts-hacked-2 Each German government ministry and 17 of its members of parliament were targeted by the huge data theft in which 16 million online identities were stolen. https://www.thelocal.de/20140203/german-ministries-hit-in-16-million-email-theft Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:28:00 +0100 german-ministries-hit-in-16-million-email-theft