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President of the political movement ‘En Marche!’ (On the move!) and candidate for the French presidential election Emmanuel Macron makes a statement after his visit to the ‘Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation’ (Deportation Memorial) on April 30, 2017 in Paris, France.
French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign said it has been the victim of a massive and coordinated hacking operation
The campaign said fake documents, mixed with authentic ones, were released together, in an attempt to sow doubt and misninformation before voters go to the polls to choose the country’s next president in a run-off with Marine Le Pen.
Macron’s campaign said, however, that it is not concerned about the leaked documents as they show routine operations of a presidential campaign.
Earlier, a large trove of emails purporting to be from Macron’s campaign was posted online late Friday. Some nine gigabytes of data were posted by a user called EMLEAKS to Pastebin, a document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting.
Macron’s team said it will take all appropriate measures to get clarification about this leak, saying it “won’t tolerate the undermining of democracy’s vital interests.”
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