Germany

October 20, 2025

Weber GmbH acknowledged a cyberattack on the home page of their website: ‘WEBER GmbH was the target of a cyberattack. Data on our servers was encrypted. As things stand, data has also been leaked and published on the dark web. We are working closely with the State Criminal Police Office and other authorities. The aim is to investigate the incident and restore the systems as quickly as possible. IT security experts are supporting us in this. Personal data has also been affected. We are currently checking which data and groups of people are affected. As soon as we have clarity, we will inform you directly in accordance with the GDPR.”

The RansomHouse group claimed responsibility for breaching WEBER GmbH’s network, encrypting systems, and stealing sensitive data.

May 23, 2025

German sportswear giant Adidas disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked a customer service provider and stole some customers’ data. Adidas has yet to reveal further details regarding this incident, including the name of the impacted service provider, when the incident was detected, how many individuals were affected, and if its own network was compromised during the attack.

February 7, 2025

Wuppertal-based kitchen appliance manufacturer Vorwerk suffered data breach. For many customers, a Vorwerk Thermomix is ​​only complete with online access, where they can download thousands of recipes. Unknown perpetrators accessed user data from Vorwerk’s recipe forum and copied users’ personal data. According to the news magazine “Spiegel,” the data was offered on a darknet forum. The database reportedly contains information from 3.3 million users. Vorwerk said full names, addresses, birthdays, phone numbers, and email addresses were accessed.

March 29, 2025

A cybercriminal offered hundreds of thousands of data records from Samsung Germany on the dark web. The data was copied from Samsung Electronics Germany’s support system by a hacker using the pseudonym “GHNA”. The leaked date sets contain names, addresses, emails, order data, and internal communications. Security specialist Hudson Rock analyzed the breach and found initial access was gained via login credentials stolen by an infostealer in 2021. Raccoon malware harvested login credentials from a third party associated with Samsung’s German ticketing system. These credentials sat dormant until the hacker got their hands on them. And now “270,000 customer tickets have hit the open internet, most of them from 2025, courtesy of a simple login that never got rotated.”

Samsung issued the following statement. “Samsung has been made aware of a data breach impacting one of our system partners in Germany. We take the security of customer data extremely seriously and are working to assess the extent of the incident.”