Hacked documents from Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign were posted online tonight in a
'massive and co-ordinated attack' after the front-runner complained of Russian attempts to destabilise him. Some nine gigabytes of data were posted by a user called EMLEAKS to Pastebin, a document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting. They included emails, accounting documents and contracts - all legal - from his campaign. Macron's political movement En Marche! (Onwards!) said that several of its leaders had their emails hacked. Former economy minister Macron's team has complained in the past about attempts to hack its emails during a fraught campaign, blaming Russian interests in part for the cyber attacks. President Vladimir Putin is said to favour anti-EU candidate Le Pen whose election would contribute to the further destabilization of the Union
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