In a news conference Steffen Seibert the head of the German governmental press and information agency told that the government websites including Chancellor Angela Merkel’s page have been attacked.
The CyberBerkut pro-Russian organization has claimed the cyber attack on its website.
Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert
Our service provider’s data center is under a severe attack that has apparently been caused by a variety of external systems,” Steffen Seibert told a government news conference.