Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network

Summary: Berlin's state government confirmed it is the target of an extortion attempt after the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. Forensic work found further data outflows in the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and Environment dated between August 7 and August 12, 2026, and the Senate Chancellery said personal or other non-public data cannot be excluded from what was taken.
Why it matters: The only itemized account of what left the network is the attackers' own leak-site claim of 5.79 terabytes and personal information on 12,076 individuals, while Berlin has published no figure and its two releases carried no guidance for people whose records may be among the data as of August 29.

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