Data leak: BND vice-president's home address and contact details online

According to research, the home address and contact details of BND Vice President Dag Baehr can be found on the Internet.

According to Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and Süddeutscher Zeitung (SZ), Baehr's private cell phone number, private email addresses and home address are publicly visible online.

Accordingly, the information comes from a data leak from a US online auction house. After a hacker attack in 2020, almost three and a half million customer information ended up online, including Baehr's. The auction house informed users about the incident at the time.

As WDR and SZ report, Baehr was still using the cell phone number at the time of the research. The major general of the Bundeswehr told journalists that he only uses the number privately and to a limited extent. Statements from military and civil servants that they only had Baehr's leaked number raised doubts about his statement. Baehr later said he had kept the number for “family reasons,” but that it was a mistake that he had “since corrected.”