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The German information security ministry has warned the country’s citizens that many of them have been caught up in a massive botnet. Around 16 million people’s information – email addresses and passwords, mostly – was found to have been pilfered by the botnet, which presumably monitored the activities of its victims, and more than half of those email addresses ended in “.de”, denoting German users. The ministry has set up a website where concerned citizens can enter their email addresses; if the address is on the list, they will be sent a PGP-signed email with a special code in the subject line.