Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-05-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: Emmanuel Macron's Staff
Affected country: France
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron is targeted by a "massive and coordinated" hacking attack, hours before voters go to the polls. Tens of thousands of internal emails and other documents (9Gb) are released online.