REUTERS: Macron campaign says it has been the victim of a massive, coordinated hacking operation.

[herding cats]

Link to tweet

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1812AZ

(Reuters) - A large trove of emails 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 against far-right rival 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 if any of them were genuine.

In a statement, Macron's political movement En Marche! (Onwards!) confirmed that it had been hacked.

"The En Marche! Movement has been the victim of a massive and co-ordinated hack this evening which has given rise to the diffusion on social media of various internal information," the statement said.

Sound familiar?

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Putin and Trump and other fascist racist bigots are trying to take over the world.

They are a team, just ask Seb Gorka, the Nazi in our WH.


Why middle class white Americans want Nazi's and fascists taking over our government, I simply dont know

[delisen]

4. Fear of the other, of loss of identity, of the uncertain future

as automation has sped up.

[Ilsa]

7. I'm hoping Comey will use gorka to take down trump. NT

[delisen]

2. War! Russia Wikileaks Drop Email Weapon for LePen

Shall we all blame Macron for theft of his communications?

[herding cats]

13. I'm not sure that's how they'll do things in France.

I suspect that's an American "thing" but we shall see.

[bettyellen]

3. And Wikileaks is pushing it big time while saying they have no dog in the fight....

Such bullshit

[herding cats]

14. Yep.

That's not transparent or anything.

[MontanaMama]

5. Comey said during his testimony

that he was confident that the Russians were still involved in USA politics. So now they are ass deep in France's beeswax too. Big freaking surprise. How will this end? Who will end it? We will not be able to pull out any victory in 2018 until they are stopped.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article148469744.html

[Ilsa]

6. Trumpians are going to have to see examples

Of russian meddling before they'll even consider it was a factor in our election. I hate that it is hapoening to Macron. But I'm glad it is becoming clear that it does happen, and by whom. Now people need to wise up about motivation.

[delisen]

8. The Email Bomb worked in the US and they didn't get push back

So now France gets hit with the same weapon.

People on the Left who don't want to see that the Russian thumb decided our election are unwittingly providing cover for Putin.

I wonder how much money also has been coming in from foreign actors to sway elections.

How will the French react?

[herding cats]

17. Russia's not done messing with the US elections either.

Because it works here, "and they didn't get much pushback." You get it.

[Voltaire2]

9. Liberal democracy is under assault and losing the war.

[MicaelS]

10. And some idiots claim Russia is not the enemy of the West.

Fuck Putin.

[BigmanPigman]

11. This is about saving global democracy and NOT tRump's possible collusion with Russia.

When will the partisan politicians realize that this is extremely important and stop focusing on their glorious leader's possible involvement with his campaign and the three branches of our government which they control? They'd rather risk global democracy than winning/losing a few votes. Party over country is business as usual with the morally corrupt GOP. Russia is winning and they are paving the way...time for another celebration like after ACA "win".

[Cha]

12. It better not change the election.

Mahalo, herding

[herding cats]

16. I agree, Cha.

I'm not sure yet how France will react to this interference, but I do hope they're sane. I almost can't believe the news today. My head is reeling.

Mahalo, Cha.

[Cha]

18. I know.. it's just one bad surreal thing after

another.. it has to turn around sometime.

Here's to it doing it sooner. I think I would write my emails like I know they can be hacked by assholes and make sure it's something I wouldn't mind the whole world seeing.

[herding cats]

20. I suspect that neutral email protocol, even for supposed private ones, is now the norm.

I've worked for companies before where that was standard, and I suspect that's going to become a much larger assumed thing now.

No matter how careful we are, there's someone out there every minute of everyday trying to find a way to breach our defenses. For most of us that's an inconvenience, but if you're a potential world leader then it's a a whole other thing.

I predict they'll be switching to a more secure, tailor made, system for sensitive national elections ASAP.

Go bullish on cyber security companies is the best I have.

[Blaukraut]

15. This is an act of war and there should be retaliation against Russia in some form

Sadly, the US and half of Europe can't get their heads out of their asses long enough to come up with a way to stop Putin. He's halfway to his goal already.

[bdamomma]

19. Oh yea, Putin

and the far right want to change the world order, this is what Bannon was pushing for. Also they want to get rid of NATO. They hate democracy, this is cyber war.