Tech · 11 d ago
Norbert Nagel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Two hackers say they are behind the AfD data leak
Two anonymous people say they took more than 400,000 emails and tens of thousands of attachments from a hosting provider of Germany's AfD party, and published them this week.
One of them said the motive was transparency, not support for another party, and claimed the documents point to financial misconduct. The leak also appears to include personal data of uninvolved people.
What we know
- The AfD confirmed the September hack
- The loss was reported to Berlin's regulator
- Germany's cyber agency, the BSI, is involved
Not yet
- Who the two people really are
- Whether the misconduct claims hold up
The AfD confirmed a September hack of its hosting provider and has reported the data loss to Berlin's data protection authority.
