345,000 email addresses stolen in cyberattack on Germany’s far-right party AfD

Reported by Help Net Security (Sinisa Markovic)

Summary by Cyber Security News28 Oct 2026, 15:28 CET

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Over 345,000 unique email addresses were exposed in the September 2026 breach at German far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) added the data to its database on 27 October, listing email addresses and email messages as the compromised information. HIBP has flagged the incident as a sensitive breach, so the data cannot be searched publicly.

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