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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:24AM (1 child)
The expensive business copy/print/scan/fax
machines generate some pretty insane PDF files.
Given text over a blurry colorful background
scene, the machines will create two layers.
The background is compressed as a color image,
having had the text kind of interpolated away.
The text is on-the-fly turned into a custom font.
BTW, this is the source of the Xerox bug that
was changing numbers in documents when run on
a high compression setting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:41AM
Does not explain the fakery in this case, take a look for yourself. The only piece of text lacking jpeg compression artefacts is the first name in the handwritten signature. [france24.com] Would an OCR process not have detected a monospace sans first?