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According to a report, many German politicians are an easy goal for cybercriminals.If you are looking for it in the Darknet, you will find confidential data from many state parliament members-including complete email passwords. In the Darknet there are sensitive data of many German politicians.As the "Spiegel" reported, the passwords of the email accounts of more than 50 German members of the state parliament are available in cybercriminal forums.The magazine relies on an investigation by the Swiss IT company Proton. Proton has therefore used special software to check a total of 1874 MP addresses.The software found it in 241 cases.Sometimes it is only encrypted or incomplete passwords, but of 54 members of the state parliament, passwords were found in plain text on the net. Proton has checked the email addresses of members of the state parliament, since-unlike Member of the Bundestag-they generally state a personally used email address in order to be able to contact citizens.Access data from a current prime minister were also compromised, as it says in the "Spiegel". Danger also for normal citizens The CDU politician Björn Thümler is one of those affected: "This shows that you have to be even more careful and, above all, sensitive with your data," said the 54-year-old Lower Saxony member of the state parliament to the magazine."We all have valuable and important data privately and professional data that needs to be protected." Thümler was for five years until 2022, Minister of Science and Culture in Lower Saxony and was regularly warned of hacker attacks by the authorities as part of the state government."For enemy intelligence services, attacks on science are a worthwhile and lucrative espionage goal," said Thümler. Eamonn Maguire, Head of Account Safety at Proton, told the "Spiegel" that not only politicians, but practically all people who used the Internet were affected."Large data breakdowns have endangered billions of accounts in the past ten years."For state hackers and cybercriminals, the leaked data is a gift.