Representatives from several German political parties have been targeted by hackers allegedly backed by the Russian government, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Sept. 20.
Members of left-leaning Die Linke party were targeted along with the youth wing of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the report claimed. CDU’s representatives in the federal state of Saarland, where a new regional parliament will be elected next March, also allegedly came under cyber-attack.
