Hacker attacks led to the release of internal AfD emails online
The Alternative for Germany party said it was hit by a hacker attack in September, resulting in the online publication of about 421,000 emails from its accounts.
- The AfD reported a hacker attack on a hosting service provider in September.
- Unknown individuals allegedly published data containing about 421,000 AfD emails online.
- Current email inboxes of the AfD federal association were not affected.
- Unknown sources claim the leaked data includes emails from ten inboxes.
- The spokesperson stated that the attack was detected and stopped in a short time frame.
- The newspaper Bild reported that over 420 thousand emails linked to the party were published online.
- The AfD admitted that large amounts of data were leaked during the incident.
- More than 421,000 emails were reportedly stolen during the attack.
- The alleged compromised accounts included one belonging to former AfD leader Alexander Gauland.
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