Macron campaign emails appear to be leaked online

[octoberlib]

A large trove of emails purporting to be from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country's next president in a run-off with Marine Le Pen.

Some nine gigabytes of data were posted by a user called EMLEAKS to Pastebin, a document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for posting the data or whether the emails were genuine.

A Macron spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

(reporting by Eric Auchard in Frankfurt and Michel Rose and Bate Felix in Paris; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-macron-leaks-idUSKBN1812AZ?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social




Here we go again.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Some might be legit, others might be edited. Gee, like the timing isn't suspect.

[sarah FAILIN]

2. You said it.

Here we go again.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. If the voters fall for it they and I guess we all deserve the outcome which will be

Putin rules the planet.

Getting sick of this shit, maybe humans are just too dumb to live.

[applegrove]

4. Hope a backlash happens against Le Pen.

[octoberlib]

5. In the US they used DCLEAKS , over there EMLEAKS. Russian hackers need to get more creative.

[joshcryer]

6. I wonder who could have possibly ever done this.

Let's just say their cyberwarfare is leagues ahead of what the US has done as of late. You don't see anything like this in our history outside of Latin America (and even then it's not where near as effective).

[drray23]

7. its too late to make a difference.

All campaign activity has stopped 15 minutes ago (midnight friday) by law. we vote tomorrow (for expat in the us) and sunday.

The media can not use this and get the campaigns to comment on it. French people wont suddenly flip from Macron to Le Pen.

One reason is that we know its the russians screwing with us and that wont fly. Another is that most french people dont expect their politicians to be perfect. All of them are at one time or another in the news for various sheneningans.

Le Pen who is a european deputy currently is being investigated for illicit payments to staffers abd the european congress is voting to strip her of her immunity. Sex scandals dont work either. Its pretty common to see reports of this or that person to have a lover. etc...

[Ohioblue22]

8. this is my hope. that now most are aware of Russian fuckery

and that it won't affect the election . most americans are dumb ,easily led and lazy so it's no surprise they fell for it hopefully others are wiser

[mitch96]

9. ANY politician in this day and age who has anything important

on a computer or server that is linked to the internet is just asking for it..
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[Blue_Roses]

10. True

but they also have the false edits that can compromise too.

[Blue_Roses]

11. Please tell me France has a better system of voting

than the US has--paper trail or something to prove results are correct.

We in the US, have got to get very serious about changing our voting apparatus.

Good Luck! Wishing for a great outcome, France! The US needs some good news about now.

[octoberlib]

12. Well, I know they don't have an electoral

college,so Macron should be fine.