France’s leading presidential candidate has slammed a “massive” cyber attack against him which has been linked to American far-right activist who want him to lose.
Emails, accounting documents, contracts and other materials belonging to Emmanuel Macron’s party, En Marche!, were hacked and blended with fake news, and then disseminated across the internet in a cyber-attack against the camp.
“A massive and coordinated piracy action” was launched, Macron’s camp announced.
“Those who are circulating these documents added false documents to many original documents in order to sow doubt and misinformation,” the En Marche! movement said in its statement.
The attack was launched late on Friday, hours before a legal prohibition on campaigning went into effect across France.
“Intervening in the final hour of the official campaign, this operation is clearly a matter of democratic destabilization, as was seen in the United States during the last…