MacronLeaks to be probed by French Cybersecurity Agency

M. M. ALAM

PARIS: French Cybersecurity Agency will be probing the MacronLeaks that was meant to target centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.

Country’s Election Campaign Commission has told that, following the hacking attack on Macron’s campaign (36 hours before commencement of voting) a significant amount of data had been leaked on social networks.

The Commission has informed on Saturday (6th of April) that information systems and mail accounts from some of Macron’s campaign managers had been fraudulently obtained. It insinuated that fake news had probably been mingled in with it.

French Media and citizens have been urged not to relay the contents of the leaked documents in order not to alter the sincerity of the vote.

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French Elections: Media warned not to publish Emmanuel Macron leaks!

French Elections: Media warned not to publish Emmanuel Macron leaks!

May 6, 2017

M. M. ALAM

PARIS: Media and internet users have been warned by the Electoral Commission here against publishing documents obtained in a massive and coordinated hacking attack on En March’s chief Emmanuel Macron’s political campaign.

The commission after studying few of the leaked material came to the conclusion that some of the documents contained false information.

As the official presidential campaign ended on Friday (5^th of May) thousands of documents presented as #Macrons Leaks were published online and relayed on social network.

Macron’s party En March stated that those papers were obtained several months ago thanks to the hacking of personal and professional mailboxes of several leaders of the movement”.

Overall nine gigabytes of documents were published in the night, separated into several lots.

**The files, weighing 15 gigabytes, expose contents of personal mailboxes of En March activists.**

About 9GB of data was posted by a user called EMLEAKS to the document-sharing site Pastebin, a sort of popular online notebook for computer scientists and hacker groups because it allows documents to be published anonymously.

Information given includes private correspondence and exchanges concerning the organization of the campaign and movement.

Spreadsheets detailing campaign accounts were also posted.

The documents resulting from piracy are all legal and reflect the normal functioning of a presidential campaign.

Cynics are wondering about the authenticity of the leaked information that is not easy to verify.

**According to En Marche: “Those who circulate these documents add to authentic documents a number of false documents in order to sow doubt and disinformation.”**

**The documents appeared in the form of links published on the aforementioned Pastebin site.**

Unlike the US Democratic Party’s internal documents, which had been pirated during the presidential campaign last year, the emails released this Friday have not been published by WikiLeaks.

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M. M. ALAM

PARIS: French Cybersecurity Agency will be probing the MacronLeaks that was meant to target centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.

Country’s Election Campaign Commission has told that, following the hacking attack on Macron’s campaign (36 hours before commencement of voting) a significant amount of data had been leaked on social networks.

The Commission has informed on Saturday (6th of April) that information systems and mail accounts from some of Macron’s campaign managers had been fraudulently obtained. It insinuated that fake news had probably been mingled in with it.

French Media and citizens have been urged not to relay the contents of the leaked documents in order not to alter the sincerity of the vote.

RELEVANT PIECE PUBLISHED EARLIER

French Elections: Media warned not to publish Emmanuel Macron leaks!

M. M. ALAM

PARIS: Media and internet users have been warned by the Electoral Commission here against publishing documents obtained in a massive and coordinated hacking attack on En March’s chief Emmanuel Macron’s political campaign.

The commission after studying few of the leaked material came to the conclusion that some of the documents contained false information.

As the official presidential campaign ended on Friday (5^th of May) thousands of documents presented as #Macrons Leaks were published online and relayed on social network.

Macron’s party En March stated that those papers were obtained several months ago thanks to the hacking of personal and professional mailboxes of several leaders of the movement”.

Overall nine gigabytes of documents were published in the night, separated into several lots.

**The files, weighing 15 gigabytes, expose contents of personal mailboxes of En March activists.**

About 9GB of data was posted by a user called EMLEAKS to the document-sharing site Pastebin, a sort of popular online notebook for computer scientists and hacker groups because it allows documents to be published anonymously.

Information given includes private correspondence and exchanges concerning the organization of the campaign and movement.

Spreadsheets detailing campaign accounts were also posted.

The documents resulting from piracy are all legal and reflect the normal functioning of a presidential campaign.

Cynics are wondering about the authenticity of the leaked information that is not easy to verify.

**According to En Marche: “Those who circulate these documents add to authentic documents a number of false documents in order to sow doubt and disinformation.”**

**The documents appeared in the form of links published on the aforementioned Pastebin site.**

Unlike the US Democratic Party’s internal documents, which had been pirated during the presidential campaign last year, the emails released this Friday have not been published by WikiLeaks.

M M Alam

M. M. ALAM

PARIS: French Cybersecurity Agency will be probing the MacronLeaks that was meant to target centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.

Country’s Election Campaign Commission has told that, following the hacking attack on Macron’s campaign (36 hours before commencement of voting) a significant amount of data had been leaked on social networks.

The Commission has informed on Saturday (6th of April) that information systems and mail accounts from some of Macron’s campaign managers had been fraudulently obtained. It insinuated that fake news had probably been mingled in with it.

French Media and citizens have been urged not to relay the contents of the leaked documents in order not to alter the sincerity of the vote.

RELEVANT PIECE PUBLISHED EARLIER

M. M. ALAM

PARIS: Media and internet users have been warned by the Electoral Commission here against publishing documents obtained in a massive and coordinated hacking attack on En March’s chief Emmanuel Macron’s political campaign.

The commission after studying few of the leaked material came to the conclusion that some of the documents contained false information.

As the official presidential campaign ended on Friday (5th of May) thousands of documents presented as #Macrons Leaks were published online and relayed on social network.

Macron’s party En March stated that those papers were obtained several months ago thanks to the hacking of personal and professional mailboxes of several leaders of the movement”.

Overall nine gigabytes of documents were published in the night, separated into several lots.

The files, weighing 15 gigabytes, expose contents of personal mailboxes of En March activists.

About 9GB of data was posted by a user called EMLEAKS to the document-sharing site Pastebin, a sort of popular online notebook for computer scientists and hacker groups because it allows documents to be published anonymously.

Information given includes private correspondence and exchanges concerning the organization of the campaign and movement.

Spreadsheets detailing campaign accounts were also posted.

The documents resulting from piracy are all legal and reflect the normal functioning of a presidential campaign.

Cynics are wondering about the authenticity of the leaked information that is not easy to verify.

According to En Marche: “Those who circulate these documents add to authentic documents a number of false documents in order to sow doubt and disinformation.”

The documents appeared in the form of links published on the aforementioned Pastebin site.

Unlike the US Democratic Party’s internal documents, which had been pirated during the presidential campaign last year, the emails released this Friday have not been published by WikiLeaks.

M M Alam

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As the official presidential campaign ended on Friday (5^th of May) thousands of documents presented as #Macrons Leaks were published online and relayed on social network.

**The files, weighing 15 gigabytes, expose contents of personal mailboxes of En March activists.**

**According to En Marche: “Those who circulate these documents add to authentic documents a number of false documents in order to sow doubt and disinformation.”**

**The documents appeared in the form of links published on the aforementioned Pastebin site.**