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AfD - 345,439 breached accounts

In September 2026, the German political party which exposed 345k unique email addresses. The following month, hundreds of gigabytes of data containing hundreds of thousands of emails and attachments was published online, with searchable AI-generated summaries and downloadable original files. reported that the breach was detected as early as 9 September, with a subsequent intrusion occurring five days later. , AfD attributed the breach to an attack on a hosting provider, identified in subsequent reporting as the party-owned Alternita Dienstleistungs GmbH. Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) suffered a data breach An analysis of the incident In its public statement