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Hacker Leaks Data on Angela Merkel and Hundreds of German Lawmakers

posted by mrpg on Saturday January 05 2019, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the data-in-german-is-____ dept.

MrPlow writes:

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[...] The data was leaked from a Twitter account, since suspended, and included email addresses, phone numbers, photo IDs and other personal data on hundreds of senior political figures.

According to a government spokesperson, there was no “sensitive” data from the chancellor’s office, but other lawmakers had more personal data stolen. Other portions of the leaked data included Facebook and Twitter passwords. Some had their credit card information stolen, and chat logs and private letters published in the breach.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/04/germany-data-breach-lawmakers-leak/

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @06:16AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @06:16AM (#782421)

    13 years of stagnant government under Angela "Neuland" Merkel, they had already taken it in the butt before by the NSA, but today they were trying to blame people in the AfD because none (not much?) of their data got leaked.

    Perhaps they just had better OpSec.

    Anyone got mirrors of the stuff?

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @07:37AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @07:37AM (#782434)

    According to my source, it was russia or possibly xina.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @08:50AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @08:50AM (#782444)

      Any actual proof?
      Like say recordings of someone being tortured to death in an Embassy? Something like that?

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:19AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @10:19AM (#782459)

        According to my source, it was russia or possibly xina.

        Any actual proof?

        Trump just denied he was involved, so that pretty much guarantees it was Russia.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @08:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @08:48AM (#782443)

    Does this mean that they will kick her and her illegal immigrants out?

  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @09:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @09:20PM (#782608)

    It appears that all of the main political parties in Germany were affected except for the far-right Alternative for Germany [theguardian.com] admired by Nigel Farage and suppored by that nice Mr Putin.

    So obviously Russia and the alt-wrong had nothing at all to do with it.