Deutsche Telekom hack affects 900,000 customers

German telecommunications giant and T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom was the victim of a cyber-attack over the weekend, which left some 900,000 users affected, the company confirms in a blog post. This weekend, a hacker (or more likely, hackers) infiltrated the company, and tried to infect users' home routers with malware. Deutsche Telekom said its network was not affected "at any time". "The attack attempted to infect routers with a malware but failed which caused crashes or restrictions for four to five percent of all routers", the company says. The telecoms company says it had implemented a series of measures to the network,… [Continue Reading]