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Service interruption has ended, confirms the service provider (Picture indicating resolution).
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German Financial Offices' Technical Hiccup Sorted Out After Major Week-long Outage

Here’s the lowdown on the recent tech snafu that shook several German financial offices:

Last week, on May 7, 2025, a major network communication issue rocked the Dataport data center, causing a week-long outage for financial offices in Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein.

The impact wasn't pretty, folks. The IT service provider, Dataport, officially confirmed that the snag involved a hiccup with the hardware in the firewall environment, preventing employees from accessing citizen tax data. Despite the setback, they managed to provide general tax information during the outage, nixing the fear of a cyber attack.

Now for some good news! On Monday, March 13th, the Ministry of Finance in Magdeburg reported smooth sailing at the start of operations. Dataport announced that their hardworking tech squad did the job, replacing the faulty hardware and successfully completing all necessary tests.

Whew, crisis averted! This incident should remind us that even in today's digital age, a tech whammy like this can still have real-world consequences.

  • financial office
  • data processing
  • outage
  • network communication
  • Magdeburg
  • hardware
  • Bremen
  • Hamburg

[1] According to several reports, the outage affected the regional tax offices’ operations, but partial functionality was restored through a server restart. The full resolution was planned following the identification and replacement of the responsible hardware.

  1. The week-long outage at financial offices in Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein was primarily due to a hardware issue in the firewall environment.
  2. The resolution of this issue is heavily reliant on the replacement of the faulty hardware in question, ensuring the smooth operation of data processing within these financial offices.

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