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Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party

Hacker News | Oct 23, 2026 | speckx

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Germany's far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party has confirmed that it has suffered a security breach, after a hacker published what appear to be hundreds of thousands of the controversial political party's internal emails. The news came as the Hexane.cc leak site published AI-written summaries of hundreds of thousands of the messages into categories such as racism and antisemitism, graded Low to Critical, according to local media reports. Indeed, party sources told the media that although the leaked emails appeared to be authentic, the AI-generated summaries appeared to contain several inaccuracies.

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