Overview
- Hackers copied parts of AfD mailboxes in late September and this week published roughly 280–300 gigabytes of material that includes about 421,000 emails and some 629,000 files accessible by BitTorrent and a searchable anonymous site.
- The dataset contains internal party communications, party‑court files and attachments such as ID copies, invoices, bank statements and membership lists that expose racist, antisemitic and other extremist material in some messages.
- Journalists and research consortia are running large‑scale checks but authenticity is not fully verified and multiple known fake messages are already circulating on social media.
- Technical experts say the likely entry point was a compromised hosting or service provider or an unpatched party website, although forensic confirmation of the attack vector and server logs is still pending.
- Legal scholars say the material could supply leads or evidence relevant to a possible Verbotsverfahren but courts will require verified attribution, careful chain‑of‑custody work and case‑by‑case legal assessment before the files can carry weight.