Robert Koch Institute

Germany's Robert Koch Institute for infectious disease control was hit by a cyber attack days before its headquarters was the target of an arson attempt.

It was found that the website was knocked out for two hours by a distributed denial of service attack.

No sensitive data was lost.

Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-28/german-infectious-disease-agency-hit-by-hackers-days-before-arson-attack-spiegel

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/robertkochinstitut

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