Photo: DPAA British man admitted in a Cologne court on Friday to staging a large-scale cyber attack on Deutsche Telekom last year, saying he was acting for a Liberian client. The 29-year-old described as "the worst mistake of my life" the attack that knocked more than a million German households offline in November and added his motivation was money. Around a million of Deutsche Telekom's 20 million customers were unable to connect to its network for several hours last November. In 2015, hackers targeted Germany's lower house of parliament in an attack that security services have since blamed on Russia. Germany has also anxiously eyed the impact of leaked documents obtained by hackers during last year's US presidential campaign.

Source: The Local July 21, 2017 13:41 UTC