Spiegel: Russian hackers were not responsible for leak of Bundestag documents
Secret documents of the Bundestag committee responsible for investigating large-scale surveillance of the American National Security Agency (NSA) came to Wikileaks from a person working in the German parliament. On Saturday, December 17, Der Spiegel weekly published the information, citing sources from the German secret services.
Earlier, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported that investigators considered it possible that confidential files appeared at Wikileaks due to the attack of Russian hackers on the IT-systems of the Bundestag in the spring of 2015.
An official representative of German parliament confirmed to Der Spiegel that an investigation into the "violation of professional secrecy and non-disclosure obligations" is being conducted. According to the newspaper, the police are looking for the offender among the employees of the Bundestag.
The documents appeared on the Wikileaks website on December 1st and are dated from spring 2014 to January 2015. They were stored on the server of the Bundestag administration and the deputies, who are members of the Committee for the NSA, had access to them.