Overview
- Cathy Hummels confirmed Friday that she filed a criminal complaint after her LinkedIn profile and several emails were allegedly deleted and she declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.
- The Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Bamberg’s Zentralstelle Cybercrime Bayern opened an investigation on suspicion of data alteration and computer sabotage and police carried out searches on June 25 at a Munich agency and at a suspect’s apartment.
- Multiple media outlets have named a 35-year-old man reported to have worked for Hummels and to have had access to agency accounts and passwords, though prosecutors have not announced charges and the suspect is presumed innocent.
- The complaint has produced a personal rift: reports say Hummels and her sister have had no contact since the filing and the accused is said to be the sister’s partner and the father of the family’s young child.
- Investigators will now examine recovered data and account logs to establish how the deletions occurred and whether lost messages caused business or contract harm; the probe remains active and further legal steps will depend on forensic results.