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A large trove of emails purporting to be from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country's next president in a run-off with Marine Le Pen.

Some nine gigabytes of data were posted by a user called EMLEAKS to Pastebin, a document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for posting the data or whether the emails were genuine.

A Macron spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

(reporting by Eric Auchard in Frankfurt and Michel Rose and Bate Felix in Paris; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-f...BN1812AZ?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

Campaign confirmed that they were hacked
https://twitter.com/reuters/status/860615385061748736

 

[KDR_11k]

Gee, how unexpected. I bet the Russians were totally not involved.

 

[QuantumBro]

I wonder if this is the result of that Google Docs email from earlier this week.

 

[RoKKeR]

Just saw this story. Wild. And totally not Russia.

 

[Vladimir Putin]

Who would do this?

 

[smokeymicpot]

I wonder if this is the result of that Google Docs email from earlier this week.

Probably not.

I know how this story plays out.

 

[GrizzNKev]

Who would do this?

Lol

 

[Lois_Lane]

Oh, god. 2016 election boogaloo. We fucked fam.

 

[Ac30]

Who would do this?

I love this account

 

[spineduke]

Who would do this?

10/10

 

[Mimosa97]

Wikileaks at it again.

Totally not russian agents.

Anyway I can tell you that this won't have much impact in France. It's not America. And it's too late anyways the election is in less than 36 hours.

 

[TheRealTalker]

Who would do this?

 

[RoKKeR]

Who would do this?

Lmao.

 

[Mael]

Good thing the IC from the USA is not on team Trump or we would have 1 more country to suspect...

Wikileaks at it again.

Totally not russian agents.

Anyway I can tell you that this won't have much impact in France. It's not America. And it's too late anyways the election is in less than 36 hours.

If you live in America, it's less than 24h.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Subtle.

 

[Glix]

Who knows who it could have been?

Maybe China?

Maybe a 400 pound hacker?

No one will ever know

 

[Transistor]

Who would do this?

Glorious

 

[RinsFury]

Putin doing everything he can to destabilize the world. It will be a cause for celebration when they finally put him in the ground.

 

[EatinOlives]

Who would do this?

lmao

 

[kulapik]

I swear, if Le Pen wins because of this

 

[KingSnake]

Poor Russia can't catch a break. /s

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Mais ses emails ...

 

[Metaroo]

Who would do this?

Jesus LOOL

 

[Ac30]

Good thing the IC from the USA is not on team Trump or we would have 1 more country to suspect...


If you live in America, it's less than 24h.

Imagine if the KGB and CIA were friends. Facism ho!

Wikileaks at it again.

Totally not russian agents.

Anyway I can tell you that this won't have much impact in France. It's not America. And it's too late anyways the election is in less than 36 hours.

Watch Macron blow a 24% lead in 2 days just like Hillary blew a 2.4% lead in 2 months

 

[Prof. Bathtub]

Wow. Lots of people in here that WANT nuclear war. Why can't we get along?

 

[nelchaar]

Who would do this?

Ok this got me

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Macron's camp says they put fake docs in with real ones.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Putin at it again. Fuck off.

And I hope Macron destroys Le Pen.

 

[RustyNails]

BUT HIS EMAILS

 

[Wallach]

Actually not that worried about this one. If anything this is a little too predictable and will serve in the argument against Russia (even if it somehow wasn't them).

 

[Muffin1611]

Who would do this?

 

[SolarPowered]

They should expected even the most unexpected of things these days. Russia will have it's tentacles in all the elections of important western countries from now on.

 

[Username1198]

Who would do this?

 

[benicillin]

I expect this will have considerably less impact on the election because DNC emails were probably the least worrisome thing about our election, the FBI stuff had a much greater effect. Still, worrying. Hopefully it's a too-late last minute play and the French media are smarter than ours was.

 

[Sotha_Sil]

Who would do this?

Well played.

 

[Hickbilly Deluxe]

You would think these people would hire better security experts.

 

[Kin5290]

Who would do this?

A+ gimmick.

 

[Debirudog]

at this point, don't even fucking use email.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

 

[Username1198]

Everyone's getting hacked we need to go back to carrier pigeons

 

[studyguy]

They hit him on a Friday night, they're late to the game on it and likely know it.
The discussion making the rounds about twitter seem like there's a metric shitton of bullshit mixed into the dump making it all the more sketchy.

 

[Xando]

You would think these people would hire better security experts.

You can have the best security experts in the world and still have some idiot click on a phishing link

 

[jabuseika]

But will the French let the Russians influence them?

 

[Ac30]

at this point, don't even fucking use email.

I'm pretty sure Macron's team actually made it a policy to never use email for sensitive matters - pretty sure some of these documents aren't emails, hence an actual hack (or inside leak)

 

[AstroNut325]

Who would do this?

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

Where the hell was Baron Trump?! WHY ISNT ANYONE CALLING BARON TRUMP!?

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Macron's lead over Le Pen has steadily widened since the big debate and it was already like 20 points, unlike a certain other candidate. I doubt Macron is in danger here when he's already winning like 60/40 according to the French polls.

 

[Judderman]

Who would do this?

Ayyy.

But seriously, this is ridiculous.

 

[kirblar]

I wonder if Le Pen's campaign was dumb enough to be directly involved w/ this like we're seeing come out about Trump's.

 

[EatinOlives]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39827244

"Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack"

The article itself is blank, presumably they're going to update it with info as it comes in.