Weeks after a hacker attack, the daily newspapers of the Funke media group should appear regularly again during the week. “As of today, we are very optimistic about leaving the emergency mode this week,” said Funke on Monday.

Thousands of computers cleaned The information technology (IT) of the media company is progressing faster than expected with the reconstruction of the infrastructure as well as the “cleaning” and reissuing of the notebooks. Around 5000 computers have already been cleaned and are in use again.

Spark was on 22. December victim of serious external cyber attack. Nationwide newspapers of the association were affected and appeared in emergency editions, such as the “WAZ”, the “Berliner Morgenpost” and the “Hamburger Abendblatt”.

According to Funke -In particular, the “Berliner Morgenpost” appears again in the regular scope. The “Hamburger Abendblatt” appeared on Saturday with 48 pages, albeit without the regional editions. The media group is now producing almost 30 different local editions for the titles in North Rhine-Westphalia. The share of local parts is also increasing in other regions.

(mho)