Hundreds of thousands of private emails from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have been hacked and published online, exposing the inner workings of the party and raising the possibility that members could be harassed. 

The party has confirmed that unidentified hackers had accessed their private information, which allegedly consists of 421,179 emails, amounting to 281 gigabytes of data, according to the tabloid newspaper Bild. 

Other hacked documents allegedly include copies of identity cards, invoices, bank statements, membership applications and lists of party members

Other hacked documents allegedly include copies of identity cards, invoices, bank statements, membership applications and lists of party members

Among the material is said to be correspondence which includes the party’s leader, Alice Weidel; former party chairman, Alexander Gauland; and a member of the German parliament, Leif-Erik Holm.

The AfD has said that the hackers targeted an external hosting provider, rather than hacking its own central systems. A spokesman claimed that only a ‘small number of........

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