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A German parliament database compromised in 2015 likely fell victim to the Russian hackers who also attacked the US Democratic Party’s servers, a German newspaper reported. Lawmakers had been assured their data was safe.

Germany’s “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” (FAS) quoted a high-ranking security official who said it was “highly plausible” that a cybertheft of files from a German parliamentary inquiry in 2015 was conducted by Russian hackers.
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