sit hackers behind the massive problems with the German Telekom. According to a spokesperson there, after a preliminary investigation, instructions. Since Sunday afternoon have approximately 900 thousand Telekom customers throughout Germany have problems with calling, surfing the web and watching television. Cause is a wrong software update of the router, causing the router not connected to the network, and so goes offline.
this Morning Telekom re-a software update is made. If customers have their router restart, the problem would be corrected. Meanwhile, around 450,000 routers back online. In total, Telekom 20 million customers with a fixed connection. The problems were thus but a small part.
the investigation into the cause of the problem focuses on the way in which the routers of an automatic software update. It seems as if strangers, that process is manipulated. Or that on the central server of Deutsche Telekom have done, or on the individual routers themselves, is officially not yet been determined.
Correspondent Jeroen Wollaars: “The software updates will be by modern routers checked for authenticity. In the old that does not happen, and which are now lost. That makes it plausible to think that hackers are the central software update server have to know to hack, which is a proven way to spread malicious software.”
According to the spokesperson had the wrong software update, no other consequences, other than that the device is not connected. If a weiter go, then it would be a unicum. Previously, there were also all vulnerabilities found in routers from Telekom, but a hack of this size in Germany has not previously occurred.
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