Overview of the German aFd email leak
An analytical overview of a major data leak involving Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, containing over 420,000 emails and WordPress database files spanning from 2013 to 2026.
Why it matters
Provides technical transparency into a massive political data breach that exposes internal communications and operations of a prominent European right-wing political party.
investigating the leaked afd emails - eriks site
What's in the leak The hexane archive contains two independent datasets from different systems. They share only the occasional email address:
emails : ten mailboxes from the AfD's mail servers, and
websites : the WordPress databases of www.afd.de and ~140 other party websites.
This notebook answers the questions below one at a time. Every number is computed here from the files, unless it is explicitly marked as the source's : taken from the notes of the person or group who provided the data ( the source below). Where two counts of "the same thing" disagree, the notebook explains which question each one answers.
Read top to bottom. Each section starts with a short answer, then the evidence.
emails 421,178 stored messages, all folders
conversations 49,554 threads with 2+ emails
time span 2013–2026 Mar 2013 to Sep 2026, by send date
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