06-05-2017 00:48 via theverge.com

Emails leaked in ‘massive hacking attack’ on French presidential campaign

An anonymous group has posted nine gigabytes of emails and other data, purportedly taken from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. In a statement to the BBC, the Macron campaign said it had been the victim of a “massive hacking attack” and confirmed that some of the documents were taken from campaign officials, although it claimed other portions of the archive may be fabricated.
The attack is conspicuously similar to a string of hacks against the Clinton cam
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