Published: August 1st, 2024,
Last updated: September 4th, 2024

The German government blames China for a 2021 cyber attack on the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). Intelligence information indicated that Chinese actors were responsible for the cyber attack, said a spokesperson for the Federal Foreign Office on Wednesday in Berlin. This led to the Chinese ambassador in Germany being summoned for the first time since 1989. The German government condemned such attacks in the strongest terms.