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Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts

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Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts
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The cyberattack on Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country’s most prominent far-right political party, exposed hundreds of thousands of confidential emails and attachments, as well as more than 345,000 unique email addresses.Have I Been Pwned confirmed the scale of the breach for the first time today, after AfD officially disclosed the September attack on its hosting provider last week.AfD said in its statement that “only a few email accounts were illegally copied,” but admitted a large amoun

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