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Story summary
- AfD confirmed a September cyberattack that copied parts of email accounts.
- The breach accessed ten mailboxes, including the North Rhine-Westphalia state association’s account.
- AfD said most compromised mailboxes had been unused for years and federal correspondence was unaffected.
- Heise Online reported a 280 GB archive of ~420,000 emails, PDFs, DOCX files, SQL dumps, identity documents and bank statements.
- AI-generated summaries falsely attribute messages to Alice Weidel, Alexander Gauland and Leif-Erik Holm.