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 A British man was handed a suspended jail sentence by a court in Cologne on Friday for a massive cyber attack against Deutsche Telekom last year. https://www.thelocal.de/20170728/british-hacker-convicted-of-massive-cyber-attack-in-germany Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:43:21 +0200 british-hacker-convicted-of-massive-cyber-attack-in-germany A British national has been arrested at a London airport on suspicion of staging a cyber-attack on Deutsche Telekom last year that knocked around a million German households offline, officials in both countries said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170223/brit-arrest-for-cyber-attack-that-hit-a-million-german-homes-last-year Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:37:23 +0100 brit-arrest-for-cyber-attack-that-hit-a-million-german-homes-last-year Cyber attacks from Russia are now so common that Germany must learn to cope with them as part of daily life, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday, after Europe's top economy suffered its largest ever online assault. https://www.thelocal.de/20161129/german-spy-chief-warns-russian-cyber-attacks-could-hit-polls Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:01:31 +0100 german-spy-chief-warns-russian-cyber-attacks-could-hit-polls Update: German Telekom is now looking into evidence of a hacker attack after 900,000 internet, phone and television clients were hit by a massive outage starting on Sunday and going into Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20161128/mass-internet-outrage-hits-900000-telekom-users Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:40:21 +0100 mass-internet-outrage-hits-900000-telekom-users 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 The US National Security Agency and British intelligence services are able to secretly access data from telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom and several other German operators, according to Der Spiegel magazine. https://www.thelocal.de/20140914/merkel-to-rally-fight-against-anti-semitism Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:53:00 +0200 merkel-to-rally-fight-against-anti-semitism Germany's three biggest email providers announced on Friday a partnership to bolster the security of messages sent between them in the wake of revelations of US online surveillance scandal. https://www.thelocal.de/20130810/51331 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:00:00 +0200 51331 German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has triggered outcry from politicians and customers after announcing it would put a data limit on flat rate internet plans. https://www.thelocal.de/20130425/49357 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:20:00 +0200 49357 Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German political leaders with access to state secrets are to be issued state-of-the-art, high security mobile phones later this year. https://www.thelocal.de/20130304/48309 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:56:00 +0100 48309 Germans who wanted to reserve a new iPhone and called a number given out by Deutsche Telekom landed instead at an adult dating hotline advertised as “hot dating fun” after the wrong number was sent out. https://www.thelocal.de/20120914/44983 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:50:00 +0200 44983 Move over, Alexander Graham Bell, Germany is marking the anniversary of the first phone call today – a century and a half after Johann Philipp Reis first transmitted a spoken sentence over a cable. https://www.thelocal.de/20111026/38451 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:07:00 +0200 38451 T-Online customers have had their emails rejected after the firm enabled mass mailings – irresistible to spammers whose activities prompted servers around the world to block all T-Online addresses. https://www.thelocal.de/20110921/37717 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:05:00 +0200 37717 Deutsche Telekom has suffered a major blow at the hands of the US Justice Department, which could block the sale of the German telecom giant's US subsidiary T-Mobile to the corporation AT&T. https://www.thelocal.de/20110901/37323 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:49:00 +0200 37323 René Obermann, the CEO of Deutsche Telekom has been crowned as this year’s worst language offender by a German language watchdog. https://www.thelocal.de/20110827/37213 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:10:00 +0200 37213 German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom said Thursday that its second quarter net profit fell by 26.7 percent owing to restructuring costs, but confirmed its full-year targets. https://www.thelocal.de/20110804/36739 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:34:00 +0200 36739 The Greek government on Thursday approached Germany's Deutsche Telekom to discuss the sale of the state's remaining stake in Balkans telecoms giant OTE. https://www.thelocal.de/20110526/35287 Thu, 26 May 2011 18:52:00 +0200 35287 AT&T on Sunday agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Germany's Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion (€27.5 billion) in a blockbuster deal in the US wireless telecommunications sector. https://www.thelocal.de/20110320/33847 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:35:00 +0100 33847 Germany's cabinet is expected to agree on a draft law on Wednesday that would prevent companies from charging customers while they are on hold on the telephone. https://www.thelocal.de/20110302/33439 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:13:00 +0100 33439 Seven companies, among them Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, have purchased tender documentation for the upcoming sale of a majority stake of state-controlled Telekom Serbia, officials said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20101211/31745 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:08:00 +0100 31745 The Bonn state prosecutor’s office is investigating Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann and seven others on suspicion of bribery in Macedonia and Montenegro. https://www.thelocal.de/20100915/29829 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:08:00 +0200 29829