Alternative for Germany Confirms Hack After 421,000 Emails Leaked Online
The archive includes inboxes, identity documents and bank records, while AfD says only dormant mailboxes were hit in the September intrusion.
- On Tuesday, unidentified individuals published more than 420,000 internal emails belonging to the Alternative for Germany party, following a breach at an external IT service provider.
- The AfD confirmed a cyberattack occurred in September against an external hosting provider, though the party claimed the intrusion was detected and halted quickly at that time.
- Containing 281 gigabytes of data, the archive includes emails from roughly ten party inboxes, including accounts for co-leader Alice Weidel and honorary chairman Alexander Gauland, alongside membership lists.
- While no spectacular scandals have surfaced, operators claim an automated summary of 39,000 messages rated 611 as "critical" and 10,450 as pointing to serious misconduct within the party.
- Party officials and security specialists are currently reviewing the dataset for authenticity and assessing whether manipulated files were inserted, following a separate September intrusion in the Thuringian state parliament.
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The far-right German Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been targeted by a major cyber attack, which allegedly exposed hundreds of thousands of emails, local media reported today.According to the AfD, during an attack by hackers, data was allegedly stolen from the party's email accounts.” In September 2026 there was a cyber attack on a hosting service provider used by our party, during which parts of several email accounts, most of which ha…
Unknown individuals claim to have published around 421,179 party emails online, but authenticity of data remains unclear
The whole extent is still unclear: hackers attack e-mail accounts of the AfD and publish numerous data on the Internet. According to the party, however, the attack has been quickly detected and ended.
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