PhotoPARIS — The campaign staff of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on Friday evening that it had been targeted by a “massive and coordinated” hacking operation after internal campaign documents were published online on social media. Earlier on Friday evening the campaign staff of Marine Le Pen, the other candidate in the Sunday runoff vote, said in a statement that her campaign website had faced “regular and targeted” attacks during the presidential campaign. Le Pen’s campaign website. The arrest occurred on French soil, the statement said. Reuters reported that about nine gigabytes of data were posted by a user called Emleaks to Pastebin, a document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting.

Source: New York Times May 05, 2017 22:50 UTC