An IT outage has brought down vehicle registration services across Bavaria in Germany.
Local publications, including PNP and Rosenheim24, reported today - March 31 - that a "technical malfunction" in the data center of the Institute of Municipal Data Processing in Bavaria (AKDB) is preventing registration procedures in several cities and districts, including Berchtesgadener Land and Altötting districts, the Straubing-Bogen district, and the city and district of Passau.
In total, approximately 80 percent of the registration offices in Bavaria have been impacted.
Tobias Welck, spokesperson for the Straubing-Bogen district office, said that the central computer at AKDB has been affected, and the institute is working on the issue.
Details about what caused the outage have not been shared, nor has an estimated timeline for resolution been provided.
DCD has contacted AKDB for further information about the outage.
AKDB was founded in 1971 and provides software, IT security, consulting, and training services. The company's website says it has three data centers in Bayreuth and Munich, which are "BSI-certified, highly available data centers" and "are managed by AKDB's technical and security experts."
According to the BSI website, AKDB's data centers are located at the Bayreuth office and Munich headquarters. AKDB's Munich office is located at Hansastraße 12-16, 80686, while the Bayreith office is located at Christian-Ritter-v.-Langh.-Str. 12 95448 Bayreuth. It is unclear which data center the outage impacted.
Earlier this year, the Bavarian State Parliament approved €270 million ($283m) of funding to expand the North Bavarian High-Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) at the Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg.
