French candidate's emails appear to leak two days before election

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French candidate's emails appear to leak two days before election

 By Joe Uchill - 05/05/17 06:40 PM EDT  

A large number of emails from the campaign of French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron appeared to leak online Friday, two days before the election.

A user known only as EMLEAKS posted a series of links to the website PasteBin that allow visitors to download nearly nine gigabytes of emails and attachments.

In a statement reported by Reuters, the Macron campaign said that it had been the target of a "massive and co-ordinated hack."

"The En Marche! Movement has been the victim of a massive and co-ordinated hack this evening which has given rise to the diffusion on social media of various internal information," the statement said.

It's unclear who is behind the leaks. WikiLeaks initially suggested it might be inauthentic – either a prank or an attempt to smear Russia – although after downloading the documents it updated its assessment to "A significant leak." 

Trend Micro, an antivirus firm, revealed in a report last week the Macron campaign had been targeted by the Russian hacking groups behind the Democratic National Committee leaks, but there is no evidence this is the cause of the leak.

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http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/332171-macron-emails-leaked-two-days-before-french-election