French Prepare to Vote as Cyber Attack on Macron Probed
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A picture taken in Paris, on May 5, 2017, shows vandalised campaign posters of French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement, Emmanuel Macron. / AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)
Photographer: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty ImagesFrench voters are getting ready to vote Sunday in the final round of the country’s presidential election after a last-minute twist saw front-runner Emmanuel Macron’s campaign fall victim to a hacking attack.
Just minutes before a legally mandated blackout on campaigning fell at midnight Friday, Macron’s team said in a statement that it was the victim of a “massive” cyber attack in which hackers published a mix of fake documents and real papers stolen from staff’s personal and professional email accounts.