Merkel Website Hit as Hackers Target German Government

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s website was crippled by an attack that hackers said was a protest against her support of Ukraine’s government.

The German parliament’s website was also blocked, marking a “serious attack” by “multiple external systems,” Steffen Seibert, Merkel’s chief spokesman, told reporters in Berlin today. He declined to comment on a claim by the pro-Russian CyberBerkut group that it jammed the websites in an attack that began at about 10 a.m. local time.