The French presidential elections are this weekend and wouldn't ya' know it... From Reuters:
French candidate Macron claims massive hack as emails leaked
Leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a "massive" computer hack that dumped its campaign emails online 1-1/2 days before voters choose between the centrist and his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen.
Macron, who is seen as the frontrunner in an election billed as the most important in France in decades, extended his lead over Le Pen in polls on Friday.
As much as 9 gigabytes of data were posted on a profile called EMLEAKS to Pastebin, a site that allows anonymous document sharing. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for posting the data or if any of it was genuine.
In a statement, Macron's political movement En Marche! (Onwards!) confirmed that it had been hacked.
No word as to the content of said emails. Most likely not a hack, more like a dump from an insider. These usually are and the organization does not want to admit this so they blame hackers from (insert current bogey-man here). And, to whomever did the [CTRL]-C, [CTRL]-V, thank you for keeping things as transparent as possible. Just as Hillary was shown to be totally corrupt and crooked, I am betting that Macron is cut from the same political cloth.
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