Notably, Germany's right-wing party, AfD, was unaffected by the hack.
It looks like the hackers got the passwords to Facebook accounts and Twitter profiles and worked their way up from there, said Simon Hegelich, a political scientist at Munich’s Technical University who has studied the manipulation of social networks.
“It’s a very elaborately done social engineering attack,” he said Friday by phone. “It’s a lot of data that’s been dumped.”
The German government is taking the attack “very seriously,” spokeswoman Martina Fietz said a briefing with reporters on Friday. -Bloomberg
What is that favorite Liberal term? Oh yes.. If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
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