Frankfurt am Main: A BRITISH national has been arrested at London airport on suspicion of staging a cyber attack on Deutsche Telekom last year that knocked around a million German households offline, officials in both countries said yesterday.
The 29-year-old, who was subject to a European arrest warrant, was detained by officers from Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA), German police and prosecutors said in a statement.
“The Briton stands accused of attempted computer sabotage in a particularly serious case,” they said.
Around a million of Deutsche Telekom’s 20 million customers were unable to connect to its network in late November, with the company saying a hacking attack targeting household routers was to blame for the hours-long disruptions.
An NCA spokesperson said the arrest took place at at the request of German police but that the suspect was also wanted “in connection to separate offences committed in the UK”.
