The German information security ministry has warned
the country’s citizens that many of them have been caught up in a
massive botnet. Around 16 million people’s information – email addresses
and passwords, mostly – was found to have been pilfered by the botnet,
which presumably monitored the activities of its victims, and more than half of those email addresses ended in “.de”, denoting German users. The ministry has set up a website
where concerned citizens can enter their email addresses; if the
address is on the list, they will be sent a PGP-signed email with a
special code in the subject line.
