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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @04:06PM
I forgot to mention that the SPD was the traditional labor party. As part of its pivot to the "new left" in the 90s, it had already sold out labor protections by the time they lost the chancellorship in 2005.