this is the news live from berlin a massive cyber security breach rocks the german capital as data from hundreds of politicians and public figures is released online private phone numbers and documents and credit card details were published on twitter last month victims want to know why it took until yesterday for them to be informed also coming up a birthday party goes tragically wrong for five teenagers during an escape room challenge in the poland they were trapped when fire broke out in. the world.

i'm calling assman welcome to the program many of the victims of a massive data leak in germany are asking why it took so long for them to be informed personal information from hundreds of german politicians and celebrities was published online in december but only became public on friday the stolen data was posted on the twitter account over four weeks in the style of an advent calendar now the leak impact of politicians at all levels including chancellor merkel foreign minister. and president. in fact there were very few politicians who were not targeted most were from merkel's conservatives the c.d.u. with some four hundred and ten affected also the german s.p.d. the social democrats and the left party but there was one notable exception the far

right of d. the party confirmed yesterday that none of their lawmakers were affected german authorities say the government's i.t. network was not compromised and they're looking at where the stolen information came from the intent though remains unclear. it come on i mean yes we have abuse difficult to make money with this daughter because most is already publicly available so there's limited black mode which i'm sure we used to speak of activism but we'll see what the investigation turns up middle ne of years maximally on the kosik has been tracking the story for us she joins me now in studio max you heard there german authorities they've known about this for weeks why did it take them so long why didn't we know about this sooner well it's not uncommon for investigators for something current a case is to keep the public uninformed for certain terms of like keeping the investigation going like strategic reasons bus in this crisis rather problematic because they said they knew by mid december when the initial publication of the lings where the data was circulated with became public but the early yesterday

stated that the now looking into it they had yesterday crisis meeting with the intelligence services and the internet the german federal agency for information security problematic it is because the links that have been circulated within the last month could contain potentially malware so if people are just digging into it which is sometimes quite tempting if you think of like oh i want to be a detective myself then that could contain malware which then again cause of course could cause harm to the computers of those use it and of course they didn't inform a lot of the victims or some people had been informed but not everybody and that's of course a concern because people trust these agencies to take care of this during your personal information is out there you want to know right in two thousand and fifteen so the suspected russian hackers they infiltrated the german parliament what about this time around how serious was this act well this is not a hack in the classic sense as it happened in two thousand and fifty in two thousand and fifteen the german parliamentary infrastructure technological

infrastructure was attacked it was crazy the data leaked that then affect over twenty thousand accounts in the german parliamentary system and that was data leaking continuously throughout the year what happened this time is that it was an actual ation of data coming from. previous data breaches but also some data that has just recently been hacked and that data have been accumulated into profiles of public personas for example politicians but also other celebrities german moderates are present as journalists and the state of profiles have been also analyzed so the people behind the state of race have time to kind of profile certain public personas and really think of like how can we make them look want to bill how can we target them pacifically and that is something that is different because it's more of a psychological wolf in a sense you mentioned who is affected so hundreds of politicians nearly every german political party except for the far right does that tell us anything about the motivation may be behind this attack so experts looking at the account that had

initially published these links where the data was circulated with said that the account which was found in two thousand and fifteen on twitter on the social media platform had affiliations to the far right at the same time the count was in active for a while so there's now suggestion that it may have even been hacked itself and one problem that security x. was always one about is that it should be you ssion and hacking with cyber security cases like this is always very difficult because you can always make it look like a certain picture like this paints in a sense of very clear picture that maybe this is coming from the far right but that could also be something that hackers have been manipulating to look like so it's very important and how can cause like this to always jump not to jump to conclusion and always be careful and white interesting stuff is maximally on the cocksure thanks very much five teenage girls have died after a fire broke out in an escape room game in northern poland typically the games involve locking participants inside a room where they find clues and solve riddles to get out escape rooms have grown

in popularity but now people are questioning whether they're safe it was supposed to be a unique birthday party experience for a group of fifteen year old girls but it's unlikely any of the teens locked into the escape room ever thought they might not make it out alive. intermissions we join the families of the victims in their grief the fire broke out at five in the afternoon in one of the escape rooms enclosure lynn used to being. all five of the teens in the room died in the fire. and employee of the game center where the room was located suffered severe burns polish media reports show people had already voiced concerns on the game center's website complaining of a strong gas smell inside while others said the set up was little more than a decorated garage the local fire department has called for immediate changes. decision has been issued starting tomorrow all escape rooms game centers and clubs

will undergo fire safety inspections. of which special attention will be paid to evacuation plans and escape routes in these types of locations so there should be a moderator able to unlock the rooms and let people out we will check this and it will be strictly controlled the speed of the. escape rooms have become wildly popular in countries around the world but it's possible the creation of such hard to leave places has moved faster than the regulation of their safety. now to some of the stories making news around the world airports and ferry services have reopened now in southern thailand after a powerful storm cause power outages and flash flooding tropical storm beryl across the gulf of thailand on friday or sing tens of thousands into emergency shelters

and leaving tourists stranded meteorologists say the storm was unusual striking well outside it's a cold monsoon season. in iraq at least nine people have been killed and dozens injured after a fire at a women's shelter in the capital baghdad police say the blaze started after a fight between residents shelter houses homeless women and unmarried mothers. the orthodox church of ukraine has been formally granted independence at a ceremony in istanbul mentioning a historic split from the russian church the move was announced in october sparking an angry reaction in moscow for centuries the ukrainian church has been under the control of religious leaders in the russian capital. and a fish has sold for a record three point one million dollars in the first auction of the new year at tokyo's fish market nearly three hundred kilogram bluefin tuna was caught off japan's northern coast bluefins though are considered a vulnerable species to two decades of overfishing. dutch

authorities say the swiss shipping company and sea will have to pay for the cost of cleaning up debris and collecting shipping containers that fell off one of its vessels in the north sea the ship lost more than two hundred seventy containers during a storm earlier this week now damaged containers and their contents are washing up on dutch and german beaches. the t.v. so easy to styrofoam packaging is harder to clean up just some of the washed up cargo that tumbled off the container ship not all containers sink some just beneath the surface creating a nasty hazard for unsuspecting trawlers. then all the reg gets broken in the worst case it can happen that the boat capsizes we've all had. the larger ships can carry almost twenty thousand containers

a lot of work for the dockers whose job it is to fasten the cargo as well as the twist locks on each box the containers are doubly secured. you can see in the operator here that the containers are fixed with rods to the so-called gallery this is pure manual work and depending on how large the ships are it spites across several days. but that's not always enough huge vessels can roll dramatically in rough seas exacting tremendous centrifugal forces on stacked containers it's what may have cost. almost two hundred eighty. some containers go overboard cannot be prevented and it happens again and again but the magnitude of the time with such a new ship is unusual. and twenty eleven the rena hits a reef off new zealand it broke into and sank three months later taking with it hundreds of containers there are only rough estimates of how many steel boxes go

overboard each year between fifteen hundred and ten thousand sea ex-pats out of a total of some one hundred thirty million shipments a year but every single dangerous goods container that gets lost is a hazard. environment minister once tracking systems introduced mean this is by the in the good at least for those dangerous goods we would be read much happier if we knew where they where it's a very early stage. the dangerous cargo that m.s.c. zoe lost has not yet been located chemical bags however have washed up on some dutch beaches but in northern germany worried locals have so far found only t.v.'s . the dakar rally one of the world's most arduous racing events gets underway on sunday with competitors from across the globe are battling it out in the unforgiving peruvian desert conditions are tough for every competitor in the grueling ten stage event but this year one homegrown racer faces

a bigger test than most. lucas iran is about to make history the twenty five year old is set to become the first person with down syndrome to compete in one of motor racing is most demanding events that deco rally if a five thousand kilometer ten day marathon race through the peruvian desert doesn't sound tough enough already look at his condition means he'll be at a significant cognitive disadvantage to his fellow competitors but he doesn't let that hold him back. if you want to do something special work hard and reach that goal. he would be driving the car himself that responsibility rests with his father lucas will be his copilot gets on with the hands on aspect of the drive lucas will have to keep his wits about him. he's the eyes of the car he can see if there's another competitor out there. to do is not like you are on

a track someone can come straight at you and you won't see them. in preparation for the grueling ordeal the father son duo competed in september's this suffer you know in courageous a warm up event also hosted on the sand dunes of peru. seven well the i in this time is the sydney finish nobody would be shocked if they did a whole lot better than that of the rule lucas has a habit of surprising people. all right in ski jumping japan's rio you kobayashi is continuing to dominate at the four hills tournament he followed up two wins at the german stages with another victory at the ski jump in austria and the omens are good ten of the previous eleven jumpers to take the tournaments first three rounds went on to claim the overall title kobayashi hopes to do just that at the final jump on sunday. rio you kobayashi is standing on the verge of

a four hills grand slam innings broke like he had twice this tournament already the japanese jumper launched himself into first place he won with the two biggest jumps of the day as he aims to become just a third man to claim a tournament clean sweep. only stefan craft came anywhere close to kobayashi austria's double world champion back on form on home snow after to pull rounds in germany the office it was truth of marcus isin the german had to second place finishes to his name coming into this round but he could only manage thirteenth since broke and now trails by more than forty five points a role equivalent to around twenty five meters in distance the tournament wraps up on sunday as well as winning the grand slam kobayashi could become the first japanese jumper in twenty one years to crane the four hills crown. there watching news from berlin we have more of the top of the hour and oh forget you can get all

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