EUobserver reports that more than 400,000 internal emails from Germany's far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) covering March 2013–September 2026 have been leaked and published online by the hacker collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). The 284GB dataset includes leadership meeting minutes, payslips, strategic documents, membership lists, donor names, and election campaign plans such as those for the 2025 parliamentary election. According to investigative outlet Correctiv, some of these strategy papers label the governing parties of the time as "enemies" and outline how to target specific voter groups. The authenticity of every email is not yet fully verified, but AfD has publicly confirmed that a leak occurred, and German media with access to the archive expect that evaluating the material will take months. Early reporting suggests that the correspondence sheds light on AfD's internal attitudes toward neo-Nazism, shows that co-chair Alice Weidel presents herself as more radical in public than in private, indicates efforts to build links with the US conservative MAGA movement and former president Donald Trump as a potential ally, and points to deeper ties with Russia than previously known. Commentators note that the trove could become relevant to ongoing debates in Berlin over whether to pursue a formal ban of AfD.

EUobserver reports that more than 400,000 internal emails from Germany's far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) covering March 2013–September 2026 have been leaked and published online by the hacker collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). The 284GB dataset includes leadership meeting minutes, payslips, strategic documents, membership lists, donor names, and election campaign plans such as those for the 2025 parliamentary election. According to investigative outlet Correctiv, some of these strategy papers label the governing parties of the time as "enemies" and outline how to target specific voter groups. The authenticity of every email is not yet fully verified, but AfD has publicly confirmed that a leak occurred, and German media with access to the archive expect that evaluating the material will take months. Early reporting suggests that the correspondence sheds light on AfD's internal attitudes toward neo-Nazism, shows that co-chair Alice Weidel presents herself as more radical in public than in private, indicates efforts to build links with the US conservative MAGA movement and former president Donald Trump as a potential ally, and points to deeper ties with Russia than previously known. Commentators note that the trove could become relevant to ongoing debates in Berlin over whether to pursue a formal ban of AfD.