Germany: Kremlin to decide whether to use hacked data to influence election
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BERLIN -- The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency said it would ultimately be up the Kremlin to decide whether data gleaned from cyber attacks directed at German lawmakers and political parties would be used to try to affect the Sept. 24 national election.
Hans-Georg Maassen, president of the BfV agency, said "large amounts of data" were seized during the May 2015 cyber attack on the Bundestag, or lower house of parliament, which has been previously been blamed on APT28, a Russian hacking group.
