The campaign of the French presidential frontrunner, Emmanuel Macron, has said it has been the target of a Huge Hacking Attack after a flood of internal documents were released online.
About nine gigabytes of data were posted online by an anonymous user called EMLEAKS to the number one paste tool since 2002 Pastebin that allows anonymous posting. It was not immediately clear who was responsible. The details are unclear so far, but Mr Macron’s En Marche movement confirmed the hack and said internal campaign documents, including emails and financial data, had been taken in an “act of massive, coordinated hacking”.
The leaked files were obtained several weeks ago by hacking personal and professional email accounts of several officials of the movement.
who is responsible for the attacks?
Things remain unclear until now. The Macron camp has not blamed anyone but said that the hack clearly proposed to damage it and undermine French democracy, Macron’s team has previously blamed Russian interests for repeated attempts to hack its systems during the campaign, saying on 26 April it had been the target of unsuccessful attempts to steal email credentials since January.
Japan-based Trend Micro said the group had used “phishing” techniques to try to steal personal data from Macron and members of his campaign.
