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

A hacker published a 281 GB archive of material taken from Germany's far-right AfD after compromising the party's hosting provider in September, with leaked messages dated as recently as 12 September 2026. The leak site Hexane.cc displays AI-generated summaries of hundreds of thousands of emails, sorted into categories such as racism and antisemitism and scored from Low to Critical, while offering the full original emails (headers, bodies, attachments and DKIM signatures) for download via torrent. The corpus reportedly contains 421,179 internal emails and more than 100,000 files; the attacker framed the release as exposing the party's "degeneracy and hypocrisy" and claimed an offer of €100,000 from a Proton Mail address to take the site down.

The AI summaries have been reported to include inaccuracies, and access may have been obtained through an allegedly unpatched website, a claim not independently verified. Security takeaways include familiar failures: forgotten or unpatched web resources, insufficient infrastructure segmentation and dormant mailboxes that still contain sensitive correspondence. Downloading the torrent carries risks - malware distribution via trending-topic torrents and legal exposure from handling stolen personal data - while the party had already faced a separate phishing-related incident in early September, underscoring persistent operational security weaknesses.