Other than the title might suggest this happened at the (second highest) administrative level, the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Landesministerium), not at the Bundesministerium. Also reportedly some of the machines were brand new so no need for "radical" upgrade methods for all of them.
The only good thing about this that federal auditing by the Landesrechnungshof seems to work, since they complained about it in their yearly report in the first place and it got only picked up by the press after that.
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Other than the title might suggest this happened at the (second highest) administrative level, the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Landesministerium), not at the Bundesministerium. Also reportedly some of the machines were brand new so no need for "radical" upgrade methods for all of them.
The only good thing about this that federal auditing by the Landesrechnungshof seems to work, since they complained about it in their yearly report in the first place and it got only picked up by the press after that.
http://www.lrh-mv.de/land-mv/LRH_prod/LRH/Veroeffentlichunge... (german pdf, page 152)