Dirk Knop reports:
Around three weeks ago, the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH), which includes around 450 youth hostels, experienced computer problems, as reported by regional media. According to these reports, the hostels’ servers went down on August 30. Now the ransomware group Hunters has claimed on the darknet to have broken into the youth hostels and copied large amounts of data.
SWR reported at the beginning of the month that invoicing and bookings were not working and doors could not be opened due to non-programmable key cards. According to the report, there had been a serious technical fault. The computer center was paralyzed as a result.
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This article was originally published in German and has been automatically translated by Heise.