Photo: DPAA 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. Around a million of Deutsche Telekom's 20 million customers were unable to connect to its network in late November, with the company saying a hacking attack targeting household routers was to blame for the hours-long disruptions. Cyber fearsIn their statement, German police said the goal of the Deutsche Telekom assault was to infect users' computers with a "botnet" operated by the accused - a network of web-connected machines that can be manipulated with malware. Deutsche Telekom was able to fend off the attack by advising customers to disconnect their routers and restart them after a software update. In 2015, hackers targeted Germany's lower house parliament in an attack that security services have since blamed on Russia.

Source: The Local February 23, 2017 10:52 UTC