Cybersecurity

Macron Team Says It Suffered ‘Massive’ Hack of Campaign Data

Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Paris, France, on May 1, 2017.

Photographer: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images
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French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s team said it has been the victim of a “massive” cyber attack and that its documents have been distributed via social networks.

Macron’s team said in a statement that hackers have mixed fake documents with real ones stolen from the personal and professional email accounts of campaign staff. The campaign said the activities shown by its documents are completely legal.