Overview
- The breach, which security reporting places in September 2026, published about 281 GB of data containing roughly 421,000 e‑mails from around ten AfD postboxes including party offices and a Gauland address.
- Journalists who have begun sifting the files say they include repeated racist and anti‑Muslim language, antisemitic content, calls questioning or abolishing democratic rules, and documents linked to past AfD controversies.
- The AfD has confirmed some mailboxes were copied, called the intrusion criminal, disputed many published items and urged people not to use or spread the stolen data.
- Legal experts and politicians from multiple parties are pressing for coordinated Bund‑Länder review because unlawfully obtained material that is now public can still be weighed by courts in a Verbotsverfahren after fairness and probative value are assessed.
- The archive also exposes contact details and private documents of local figures and non‑members, raising data‑protection concerns and complicating journalists’ efforts to verify authenticity while avoiding harm to uninvolved individuals.