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The campaign staff of Emmanuel Macron, one of the two candidates in France's presidential election run-off, claim to have been targeted by a massive hacking operation that leaked sensitive documents:
On the eve of the most consequential French presidential election in decades, the staff of the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said late Friday that the campaign had been targeted by a "massive and coordinated" hacking operation, one with the potential to destabilize the nation's democracy before voters go to the polls on Sunday.
The digital attack, which involved a dump of campaign documents including emails and accounting records, emerged hours before a legal prohibition on campaign communications went into effect. While the leak may be of little consequence, the timing makes it extremely difficult for Mr. Macron to mitigate any damaging fallout before the runoff election, in which he faces the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has pledged to pull France out of the euro and hold a referendum to leave the European Union.
French authorities recently arrested a suspect who admitted to attacking the campaign website for the other candidate, Marine Le Pen.
Also at the Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and Reuters.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:14AM (2 children)
probably spelling her name wrong, but whatever
Every time she opened her mouth to say that the
emails were fake, she was shot down with DKIM
digital signatures. For the email to be fake,
Google itself would have had to have been hacked.
(an inside job probably, unless you think there
is a general-purpose quantum computer that can
crack giant RSA-style crypto problems)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:34AM (1 child)
A huge number of emails were not DKIM verifiable.
I can't remember if it was one third or two thirds.
But, either way it was not an insignificant number.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday May 07 2017, @08:47AM
I had missed the story. One e-mail was enough:
Brazile said that she did not know of any debate questions in advance [...] evidence that undermines Brazile’s denial has emerged by way of a standard email verification method known as DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, which indicates that the WikiLeaks-provided message sent by Jennifer Palmieri on March 12 from her Hillaryclinton.com account is not forged. [...] Salon has verified that the DKIM signature from the message provided by WikiLeaks indicates that the message was indeed sent by the Hillaryclinton.com domain. [...] Representatives for Donna Brazile and the DNC have not responded to Salon’s repeated requests for comment [...]
-- https://www.salon.com/2016/10/28/dnc-chair-donna-brazile-passed-a-debate-question-to-hillary-clintons-campaign-in-march-evidence-suggests/ [salon.com]
other reports:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/21/heres-cryptographic-proof-that-donna-brazile-is-wrong-wikileaks-emails-are-real/ [dailycaller.com]
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/24/tech-blogger-finds-proof-dnc-chiefs-emails-werent-doctored-despite-claims.html [foxnews.com] (I couldn't read this one.)