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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - After the cyber attack on the school cloud Brandenburg of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), the central contact point for cybercrime at the state criminal investigation office in Eberswalde is investigating.
Investigators were on site on Tuesday, said a spokesman for the Presidium in Potsdam on Wednesday.
With reference to the ongoing investigation, the office in Eberswalde did not want to disclose whether there is already a trace of the perpetrators or not.
On Monday, there were brief outages nationwide due to a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service Attack, literally: distributed denial of service attack), as a spokeswoman for the institute confirmed.
The loading time of the pages was delayed by several seconds, requests had to be made again.
According to HPI, the massive hits came from America.
Theoretically, however, someone from Germany could have bought the access, “you don't need a great technical understanding or high financial resources,” said Matthias Luderich, operational project manager of the school cloud.
“There is no new knowledge about the background to the cyber attack, and the perpetrators have not yet contacted us,” the institute said on request.
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In the case of DdoS attacks, a site is overwhelmed with data packets from many computers at the same time and thus blocked.
In contrast to a hacker attack, the attacker is not concerned with accessing data or breaking into a system, but rather bringing the server to its knees.
Also on Tuesday there were brief problems with the school cloud, as HPI confirmed.
However, this was due to the enormous demand in distance learning and had nothing to do with the cyber attack, said Gudrun Schulz, spokeswoman for the HPI School Cloud.
The institute had increased its defense capabilities.
According to the institute, the learning platform was stable again on Wednesday morning.
"We are currently not seeing any restrictions on availability or usability," says Schulz.
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