The chambers of industry and commerce in Germany may have fallen victim to a cyber attack. The IT systems were shut down for security reasons. It is said that a defense is currently being worked on.

Due to a possible cyber attack, the IT systems of the chambers of industry and commerce in Germany have been shut down as a precautionary measure for security reasons. This was announced by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce on Thursday on behalf of the IHK Society for Information Processing. Intensive work is currently being done on a solution and defense. The IT systems would be successively started up after testing.