Security personnel sits behind the bullet-proof window at the headquarters of Germany's BSI national cyber defence body in Bonn, Germany, January 4, 2019, after personal data and documents of German politicians and public figures have been published online. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
German authorities sought help from the US National Security Agency after discovering that hackers had released private data linked to Chancellor Angela Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians, Bild newspaper reported.
Responding to the biggest data dump of its kind in the country, German investigators wanted the US intelligence agency to lean on Twitter Inc to shut down profiles with links to the data, Bild said, citing unidentified security officials. German authorities argued that US citizens were among thousands of people exposed by the data dump.
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