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  "title": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked · updates",
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  "description": "Hackers broke into Alternita Dienstleistungs GmbH, the party-owned company that hosts web and email for Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), in September 2026 and copied party officials' mailboxes. The data, hundreds of gigabytes of emails and attachments, was published on an activist website in October. AfD confirmed the attack on its hosting provider on Oct 20, and Have I Been Pwned added the breach on Oct 27 with 345,439 unique email addresses, flagged as sensitive so only verified address owners can search it. The leaked emails also contain member-database excerpts and voter-registry data AfD requested for campaigning.",
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      "title": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked: Have I Been Pwned adds the breach with 345,439 unique email addresses and email messages, marked as a sensitive breach.",
      "content_text": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked: Have I Been Pwned adds the breach with 345,439 unique email addresses and email messages, marked as a sensitive breach.\n\nSource: https://haveibeenpwned.com/breach/AfD",
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      "title": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked: AfD confirms an attack on its hosting provider and says the stolen data was made available through an activist website; journalist Lilith Wittmann reports the attackers got in through a poorly secured WordPress site at wahlkampf.afd.de.",
      "content_text": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked: AfD confirms an attack on its hosting provider and says the stolen data was made available through an activist website; journalist Lilith Wittmann reports the attackers got in through a poorly secured WordPress site at wahlkampf.afd.de.\n\nSource: https://www.lilithwittmann.de/blog/afd-hack-2026/",
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      "title": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked: According to the attackers, code left on the servers let them return and copy more mail before being discovered again; about 300 GB was taken in total. Not confirmed by AfD or authorities.",
      "content_text": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked: According to the attackers, code left on the servers let them return and copy more mail before being discovered again; about 300 GB was taken in total. Not confirmed by AfD or authorities.\n\nSource: https://www.lilithwittmann.de/blog/afd-hack-2026/",
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      "url": "https://pwn.watch/i/afd-alternita-email-hosting-breach-sep-2026#2026-09-09-1b3ca816",
      "title": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked: Intrusion at AfD's party-owned hosting provider Alternita is detected and stopped, per people close to the provider; HIBP dates the breach to this day.",
      "content_text": "AfD: party's email hosting provider hacked, 345,000 email addresses and mailboxes leaked: Intrusion at AfD's party-owned hosting provider Alternita is detected and stopped, per people close to the provider; HIBP dates the breach to this day.\n\nSource: https://haveibeenpwned.com/breach/AfD",
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