Hackers published the correspondence of the election headquarters of Macron

Hackers gained access to the correspondence of the election headquarters of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and published it on the Internet. It is reported by Reuters.

9 gigabytes of data are placed in the EMLEAKS account on the Pastebin service. This service allows you to publish documents anonymously.

The attack became known on Friday in the evening, a day with a little before the second round of the presidential election scheduled for May 7. The link to the archive appeared on WikiLeaks Twitter and is actively distributed by ultra -right sites and bloggers.

The National Commission for Control of the Presidential Campania will hold a meeting on Saturday in connection with the incident. The commission warned the media against reprinting data from published letters to 20 hours of Sunday (21 hours Moscow time), when polling stations are closed. In her statement, she recalled that from 0:00 Saturday to the closure of the plots, all agitation is prohibited, and criminal liability is provided for violation of the ban.

Not a single hacker group about their involvement in the attack has yet announced.

According to Le Mond, French President Francois Hollande, commenting on hacking, said that "nothing will remain unanswered." The head of state added that the authorities knew about the risks of cyber attacks, since this "already took place" (in the USA. - Ed.).

On April 26, the Macron election headquarters reported that in January, hackers tried to access the passwords of the email of functionaries, but failed. At the same time, it was stated that attackers acted in the interests of Russia.

The headquarters acted with accusations of cyberataki from Russia in February. Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov then called these accusations absurd .

Former Minister of Economics of France Macron is the founder of the Center movement "Forward!" He is a supporter of European integration and critic of Russia. The candidate promised to show firmness against Moscow, in particular in Ukrainian and Syrian matters.

In the second round of elections, the centrist is opposed by the leader of the ultra -right National Front Marine Le Pen. She is known as an EuroSceptic. In addition, Le Pen received loans from Russian banks, and a month before the first round of the elections she met with Putin. She advocates the recognition of the annexation of Crimea and the lifting of sanctions from Moscow.

On April 28, the Macron headquarters refused to accredit RT and Sputnik , saying that they are “neither the press or the media”, but are a “state propaganda agency” and “regularly spread false news”.