Germany far right AfD party confirms security breach after internal email leak

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party has confirmed a security breach after a hacker published hundreds of thousands of its internal emails, according to reports by Graham Cluley and Bitdefender. Both outlets report that 281 gigabytes of data were leaked from the political group. [1][2]

Graham Cluley reported that the party admitted earlier this week that its hosting provider was hacked in September 2026. The party stated that some of its mailboxes were copied during the compromise, though it claims most of the affected mailboxes contained limited information. [1]

A leak site now claims to host 421,179 internal emails from the party, according to Graham Cluley. The publication site displays artificial intelligence summaries of the messages rather than the direct raw emails themselves. [1]