German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she has solid evidence of Russia's attempts to pirate her data, which brings back to the forefront previous accusations by Berlin of Moscow of launching cyber attacks against Germany.
Merkel added - during her response today, Wednesday to questions from deputies in a session of the German parliament (the Bundestag) - that the evidence indicates that the Russian forces are carrying out these actions, which she described as gruesome.
She added that every time she tries to build the best relations with Russia, but these efforts are matched by the attempted Russian piracy that German intelligence has been investigating for years.
The German chancellor expressed her pain at the occurrence of these acts, and did not rule out taking measures against Russia.
In the context, she indicated that hackers hacked her personal email and stole data from him in 2015, and said that investigators were able to identify a suspect in the hacking operation. The same year saw a major electronic attack on the German parliament.
According to identical media reports, last week German prosecutors blamed Russian military intelligence for the cyber attack on the Bundestag, and issued an international arrest warrant against a young Russian electronic pirate named Dimitri Badin, which German investigators believe is in Russia.
Russia has faced official US accusations of meddling in the last presidential election that resulted in the election of incumbent President Donald Trump, and of trying to influence the upcoming presidential election to be held next fall, through campaigns of disinformation via social media and electronic piracy, and European countries have accused Moscow of trying to Influencing its internal political situations in the same ways.