Isn’t German politics ridden with scandals at the personal level? I remember several cases of German top politicians faking their academic records.
After the Guttenberg scandal a wiki sprung up which investigated more past academic works from people, first mostly politicians.
Now, plagiarism is a serious issue, but these politicians were not “faking” their academic records. They actually had those titles, the universities had just failed to identify their plagiarism and given them the titles in spite of it.
As such hacking them won’t likely reveal such scandals, only actually looking at those (already public) academic works and searching for plagiarism will … which is what has already been happening.
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† Annette Schavan resigned two years earlier because of plagiarism-accusations, so his wasn’t the first case, even when only looking at recent cases.
'Faking' is a word not even strong enough. Those people acquired titles by fraud and deception.
Schavan resigned in 2013, two years after Guttenberg.
In the US that would probably just lead to a minor apology. I remember a teutophone math professor mentioning that when she was explaining how serious plagiarism was.