The investigation against a former IT employee of the state capital Dresden for the unauthorized storage of around 270,000 files, including the electoral register, has been closed. The 55-year-old gave assurances that he had never used the data outside of work and had never made it available to third parties, the public prosecutor's office announced.
He had also not made any further copies and had destroyed the data. According to the information provided, the man cited a stress-related error as the reason for saving the files, which he could not explain in more detail.
