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Bild claims [paywall and in German] that Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal computer was one of the first to be compromised in a cyberattack linked to Russia. Merkel's computer was reportedly used to spread malware to other targets within the German government.
Germany's top prosecutor has dropped an investigation into the National Security Agency's surveillance of Chancellor Merkel's cell phone.
V3.co.uk is claiming that German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen is under attack by hackers, but this has yet to be corroborated in any source the author can find.
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German Network Intrusion Involved the Compromise of Chancellor Merkel's PC
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(Score: 5, Informative) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:16PM
According to this source (German language) [t-online.de] the trojan found on Merkel's computer is not the one which infected the parliament's network, but another, widespread trojan which tries to compromise online banking.
Also, the "evidence" cited by Bild is a mail that pretends to come from Angela Merkel which contains a malware link. I guess someone doesn't know how easily you can fake the sender of an email without needing control of their computer.
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