On March 18, Joachim Pfeiffer, a member of the Bundestag CDU, received electronic mail from his tax advisor.
"We have to assume that our regular e-mail server has been attacked by malware," it said.
On Saturday, the 53-year-old Christian Democrat wrote an email himself, announcing his retirement from federal politics to party friends and companions.
After almost 20 years in the Bundestag.
There were turbulent weeks between the two emails. With constantly new data on payment transactions from Pfeiffer's companies that appear in the gray areas of the Internet. They are played to the public, disappear; new numbers are being leaked, down to the last cent. The MP was hacked - he says.