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French Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron hit by massive email hack

by IBNS 05 May 2017, 09:55 pm

Paris, May 6 (IBNS): Ahead of Sunday's Presidential polls in France, Emmanuel Macron, the front runner for Elysee Palace, received a setback as he complained of a 'massive, coordinated email hack', reports said.

In an official statement, Macron's En Marche movement said that an anonymous user released nine gigabytes of data online, which were a mixture of real and fake documents.

"The leaked files were obtained several weeks ago by hacking personal and professional email accounts of several officials of the movement," the En Marche statement read.

In Sunday's election, Macron, the Centrist candidate will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen.