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A Swiss IT company found login data of 241 German members of the state parliament in the Darknet.Saxony-Anhalt is particularly affected. By Simon Kremer Magdeburg - Login data from numerous German members of the state parliament have appeared in the Darknet - many of them from MPs from Saxony -Anhalt. 67 percent of the state parliament members from Saxony-Anhalt will be affected by the data leak in the Darkweb.(Symbol image) © Nicolas Armer/dpa As the Swiss IT company Proton announced, it found the access data for numerous applications from 241 German members of the state parliament in a research.Saxony-Anhalt had the highest percentage nationwide of affected accounts, according to the company.The politicians concerned used their official email addresses, among other things, to create accounts on websites such as Dropbox, LinkedIn or Adobe.As the ZDF reports, official email addresses were also used by providers who had nothing to do with political work-sometimes even on websites with non-youth-free content.Saxony-Anhalt 2.7 billion euros: Saxony-Anhalt's debt mountain could continue to increase among the affected members of the state parliament from Saxony-Anhalt, there are numerous of the email addresses that the MPs have given on the official side of the state parliament as a contact option-in the published data-sometimes with unencrypted passwords.It is unclear how old or current the available access data were. AfD member of the state parliament Matthias Lieschke (54) was not known that his data can be found in the Darkweb.(Archive image) © Sebastian Kahnert/dpa central picture/dpa also with the MPs from Saxony-Anhalt, the e-mail addresses specified on the state parliament side were not only used for official concerns, as a research by the German Press Agency shows.With the email addresses and passwords, accounts for fitness or hiking apps, with social media accounts, Microsoft, MySpace and other services are linked."I was not aware that my email address can be found in the Darknet," said AfD member of the state parliament Matthias Lieschke (54)."I am not aware of any illegal access to my data."Saxony-Anhalt Control in the hairdressing industry: Customs firmly states a member of the Bundestag from Saxony-Anhalt, whose data can also be found on the Darknet, announced that the so-called two-factor authentication is activated on many devices.A login with a password is not enough, but with each registration a code is also generated that is sent to the cell phone as an SMS.The Darknet is a hidden part of the Internet, which can only be reached with special software and should offer extensive anonymity.Criminals therefore often use it for the trade of drugs, weapons, child pornography or the trade with stolen login data.