Dortmund (dpa / lnw) – Due to a possible cyber attack, the IT systems of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHK) have been shut down as a precaution for security reasons. All 70 IHKs in Germany are affected, said a spokesman for the IHK Gesellschaft für Informationsverarbeitung (GfI) in Dortmund, which is responsible for IT, on Thursday. The individual services will now be examined successively. If they are clean, they are started up again.
The websites of the IHK throughout Germany cannot be accessed, and telephone systems are also affected, said the spokesman for the IHK GfI. However, the central internal management system continues to run.
“Activities” were noticed on Wednesday afternoon, the spokesman said. The IT systems were then shut down late in the evening as a preventive measure. But one continues to speak of a “possible” cyber attack, he emphasized.
