RandomGuy
05-06-2017, 04:00 PM
PARIS — One day before France’s most momentous presidential election in decades, authorities Saturday began investigating the “massive and coordinated piracy action” that the independent candidate Emmanuel Macron reported minutes before the official end of campaigning.
Late on Friday — just before the campaign's midnight deadline — the Macron team announced in a statement that it had been the victim of a major hacking operation that saw thousands of emails and other internal communications dumped into the public domain.
Although the impact of the data dump on France’s high-stakes race was not apparent, the news quickly stoked fears of a targeted operation meant to destabilize the electoral process, especially after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin commissioned an “influence campaign” to spin the U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/macron-campaign-says-its-emails-have-been-subjected-to-massive-coordinated-hacking/2017/05/06/368c0460-31e1-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html?utm_term=.c7c085f4e929
Late on Friday — just before the campaign's midnight deadline — the Macron team announced in a statement that it had been the victim of a major hacking operation that saw thousands of emails and other internal communications dumped into the public domain.
Although the impact of the data dump on France’s high-stakes race was not apparent, the news quickly stoked fears of a targeted operation meant to destabilize the electoral process, especially after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin commissioned an “influence campaign” to spin the U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/macron-campaign-says-its-emails-have-been-subjected-to-massive-coordinated-hacking/2017/05/06/368c0460-31e1-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html?utm_term=.c7c085f4e929