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A district council in eastern Germany has declared a disaster after its computer systems were paralysed by a hacker attack in what the federal cybersecurity watchdog confirmed was the country's first-ever "cyber-catastrophe".

Hackers knocked out the IT operations of the municipality of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, on Tuesday, a spokesperson confirmed to Reuters on Saturday.-

A district council in eastern Germany has declared a disaster after its computer systems were paralysed by a hacker attack in what the federal cybersecurity watchdog confirmed was the country's first-ever "cyber-catastrophe". Hackers knocked out the IT operations of the municipality of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, on Tuesday, a spokesperson confirmed to Reuters on Saturday.-

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The country that was involved in hacking our elections wants me to believe they were hacked to the point of paralyzation? The DS Global Cabal has to do better than this.

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Did everybody forget about system backups?

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Great point!

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They pushed for companies to start making regular backups during the Y2K scare. At that time they were already planning the aftermath of 9/11, when they would start spying (gathering data) on all Americans.