Leak of 421,000 AfD Emails Exposes Party Internals on Anonymous Site

More than 421,000 internal emails from ten AfD mailboxes surfaced online after hackers breached a hosting provider used by the party in late September. The dump includes correspondence from ordinary members as well as party chair Alice Weidel and former leaders such as Jörg Meuthen and Alexander Gauland. The material was published on an anonymous site called "hexane.cc," which presents a bare black background with text only and carries the headline "Interne Unterlagen, vollständig veröffentlicht." According to the Freitag report, the messages contain donation schemes, racist content and praise for Hitler. The article, by Eva Kienholz, asks why revelations of this kind barely damage the party, and directs readers to the current print issue of Freitag for the full account. The site is presumed to have been set up by the same hackers responsible for the late-September theft.