German government websites, including Merkel's page, attacked - spokesman

Reuters

Updated 7 January 2015 at 7:31 am

BERLIN (Reuters) - German government websites including Chancellor Angela Merkel's page have been attacked, rendering them inaccessible at times since 1000 am (0900 GMT), a spokesman said on Wednesday.

"Our service provider's data centre is under a severe attack that has apparently been caused by a variety of external systems," Steffen Seibert told a government news conference.

(Reporting by Michelle Martin; editing by John Stonestreet)

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