The largest German manufacturer of military equipment and ammunition Rheinmetall was the victim of a cyber attack, according to SPIEGEL. Group subsidiaries around the world were attacked by hackers, including the Kolbenschmidt company in Neckarsulm, where various systems failed on Friday.

The prosecutor's office of Cologne opened a criminal case, the details of the attack, as well as the damage caused, are being specified..

Rheinmetall has confirmed a hack attack on the group's civilian divisions, primarily producing goods for industrial customers and companies in the automotive sector.

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It is not yet known who is behind the attack..

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Rheinmetall is Germany's largest arms company. The company is one of the three largest manufacturers of military equipment and ammunition in the Western world.. Rheinmetall has a market value of more than ten billion euros. Share price more than doubled after Russian invasion of Ukraine a year ago.

In civilian areas, Rheinmetall is a supplier, in particular to the automotive industry.

In Ukraine, the concern supplies, among other things, armored personnel carriers to protect against Russian armed aggression.

At the end of March, a delegation of the German military-industrial concern headed by Chairman of the Board Armin Papperger visited Ukraine.

After that, it became known that the company was creating a military service center in Romania, where they were going to work with the equipment of the Ukrainian army..