Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands.
The same statement disclosed that forensic work had found further data outflows in the portfolio of the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and Environment, with the exfiltration dated between August 7 and August 12, 2026.
Scope and content are still being examined, and the Senate Chancellery said personal or other non-public data cannot be excluded from what was taken.
The department first reported an outflow on August 7, the Senate Chancellery said in response to questions, seven days before it was cut off from the network on August 14.
Berlin has published no figure for how much left the network. The only itemized account in circulation is the attackers' own, a leak-site post indexed on August 28 that claims 5.79 terabytes of data and personal information on 12,076 individuals.
