Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, says the city-state is being “blackmailed” by hackers after a cyberattack that became public earlier this month. He says the attackers have stolen data and are demanding something in return.
Wegner tells the state government Berlin would not comply with any ransom demand for the data. The BBC reports the mayor’s statement in terms of Berlin rejecting the hackers’ attempt to pressure authorities, while the Australian outlets also frame the incident around alleged blackmail following the breach becoming known.
The outlets align on Wegner’s core message: Berlin faces a cyberattack involving stolen data and a ransom-related pressure attempt. They do not add substantially different details about the technical cause of the breach, the size of the data involved, or the outcome of any response efforts beyond the mayor’s position that the city will not give in to demands.
