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The personal data of hundreds of German politicians including Chancellor Angela Merkel have been released in the largest data dump of its kind in the country, according to the Bloomberg.

The leaked information includes personal chat transcripts, mobile phone numbers, email addresses and photo IDs, according to a review of the records. The records have been released over the past several weeks beginning right before Christmas via a Twitter account named "G0d," which has been around since mid-2017 and identifies as a Hamburg-based "artist" involved in "security researching" and "satire & irony."

Notably, Germany's right-wing party, AfD, was unaffected by the hack.

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