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There has been no outflow of data and there are no indications as to who carried out the attack. The websites of the state and the IT Service Center Berlin had been offline since Friday afternoon.

Some digital services are also available via Berlin's federal portal, which was not affected by the attack. As of Tuesday morning, berlin.de seems to be at least partially back online.

Ruth Bender was a correspondent based in Berlin who covered a broad range of topics from business over politics to social issues for The Wall Street Journal.