Anke Domscheit-Berg, the network-policy spokesperson of the left faction in the Bundestag, criticized the President of the Federal office for IT security (BSI) for its handling of the data theft. “Arne Schönbohm, has triggered with his misleading statements even more uncertainty, rather than to educate in a crisis situation, to contribute,” said Domscheit-Berg, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (F. A. S.). So erseiner own authority have, without reasonable cause, to Fail. “This type of communication is likely to undermine confidence in state security institutions,” said Domscheit-Berg in the F. A. S.

The BSI saw on the Saturday of considerable criticism after Schönbohm had told a TV channel that his authority had already spoken to “very early December” with deputies, which data had been stolen,. The office star on Saturday with the note that it had been informed in early December by a Bundestag deputies about an assault on the private accounts, have taken this case very seriously and the National Cyber defence centre brought to the attention of. However, all Parties are assumed to be individual cases. Only now noticed that four would be more cases from the year 2018 in connection with the data theft.