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Tonight (Friday May 5 2017) hackers dumped emails (and docs) related to French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. He's the anti-Putin candidate running against the pro-Putin Marin Le Pen. I thought I'd write up some notes.
Are they Macron's emails?
No. They are e-mails from members of his staff/supporters, namely
Alain Tourret,
Pierre Person, Cedric O??, Anne-Christine Lang, and Quentin Lafay.
There are some documents labeled "Macron" which may have been taken from his computer, cloud drive -- his own, or an assistant.
Who done it?
Obviously, everyone assumes that Russian hackers did it, but there's nothing (so far) that points to anybody in particular.
It appears to be the most basic of phishing attacks, which means anyone could've done it, including your neighbor's pimply faced teenager.
Update: Several people [
*] have pointed out
Trend Micro reporting that Russian/APT28 hackers were targeting Macron back on April 24. Coincidentally, this is also the latest that emails appear in the dump.
What's the hacker's evil plan?
Everyone is proposing theories about the hacker's plan, but the most likely answer is they don't have one. Hacking is opportunistic. They likely targeted everyone in the campaign, and these were the
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