ATTACK ON EMAIL HOSTING PROVIDER FOR GERMAN FAR RIGHT PARTY AFD EXPOSED 345K ACCOUNTS

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Hackers exposed more than 345,000 email addresses and over a terabyte of emails from Alternative für Deutschland's hosting provider, Alternita Dienstleistungs. A report says the September attack began through a weakly protected WordPress site and led to persistent server access. The leaked emails were published in searchable form. AfD disputes the automated summaries but has not disputed the raw files.