Macron confirms massive hack just ahead of election

[blue-wave]

Source: Politico

Campaign accused hackers of adding fake documents to real ones ‘to sow doubt and disinformation.’

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign confirmed late Friday that it was the victim of a “massive and coordinated” cyberattack hours after a large trove of emails purportedly from his political party appeared online.

The campaign said in a lengthy statement that Macron’s party En Marche blamed the hack for the “dissemination on social networks of various kinds of internal information,” according to a translation of the statement.


Read more: http://www.politico.eu/article/macron-confirms-massive-hack-just-ahead-of-election/

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Now confirmed by Macron, it seems the same game plan is to be implemented the world over.

[msongs]

1. evidently NO politicians know how to operate and run secure servers lol nt

[LisaM]

2. Well.......

Hillary's OWN server wasn't hacked!!! Which maybe she should have thrown in Matt Lauer's face during his idiotic "Commander in Chief" forum.

[StevieM]

3. It really does seem like Hillary Clinton's email server was the most secure device in the government

eom

[StevieM]

12. As I recall the State Department server was hacked, as were many other government servers.

Clinton's device was never shown to be hacked.

[Calista241]

5. Just because they didn't prove it was hacked, doesn't mean it wasn't hacked.

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[padah513]

8. True

But if they had hacked her server, don't you think they would have used the emails contained therein to prove their point? I mean the whole thing about the emails was that she used a unsecured server to pass on classified information wasn't it?

[Calista241]

14. My personal opinion is that, like everyone else, they didn't honestly believe Trump would win.

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And by dripping her emails out over time while she was in office, they'd cripple her Presidency. Every day her press secretary would have been addressing some new issue that came up that she emailed someone about.

Most of the emails we've seen are Podesta's, but it would shock me if they don't have DWS's emails, and imagine how bad they are. They'd start with someone like DWS, and then move to someone else. The whole time they'd KNOW that Hillary's emails were going to come out, they'd be working non-stop on damage prep, and then damage control.

[George II]

6. Except Hillary Clinton, whose legal (in their minds "illegal") private server was never hacked.

[xor]

16. With sufficient motivation and resources almost anything can be broken into...

At least when it comes to more standard IT environments.

[StevieM]

4. I predict that Macron will still win in a landslide.

And Hillary-haters will then run out to proclaim that this proves that she was in no way hurt by the Russian hacking.

[byronius]

7. If the French are smart they'll take the hack as a Mark Of Honor. Whoever gets hacked by Russia

is clearly the Good Guy.

[dalton99a]

11. Yep.

[iluvtennis]

9. This is something @MalcolmNance warned about on #AMJoy last July,

Link to tweet

[bdamomma]

13. being reported on Rachel

called '"Fancy Bear"Russian back group, they have been a very busy group haven't they???

[Coventina]

15. I'm shocked SHOCKED to hear of this!!!

[Cha]

17. Fascist assholes trying to take over the world

[FigTree]

18. The underlying and rather frightening truth

Is that Russia has become so weak that such operations, aiming essentially at discrediting western political systems and therefore at banalizing its authoritarian regime, are the only remaining option.
Russia's economy is barely limping. Increasing number of its people express discontent. Technology is sinking. As their ships. Moral authority is non-existent. The only option is to play the pride card over and over again with increasing irrelevance and diminishing return.
Humiliated Russia attempts to soothe itself by humiliating others and delivering this humiliation to the public. Russia does not care who wins or where. Opportunistic infections as the one plaguing the american system develop in its wake but the strategic goal is already met, regardless of which idiot wins here or there.
Once that last ditch medicine is used up and the body still fails, the very only option left is a conflagration and the explosion of substantial violence somewhere. Or everywhere.
That is the ugly truth. And it does not bode well.