WikiLeaks publishes leaked Macron emails

WikiLeaks, founded by Australian Julian Assange, has published more emails leaked from French President Emmanuel Macron's campaign.

Roughly 20,000 emails allegedly stolen from French President Emmanuel Macron's campaign have been digitally verified and published to WikiLeaks.

The emails caused a stir when they were initially published just two days before France's May 7 presidential runoff, which pitted Macron against French far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

But unlike the leaks that rattled the 2016 American presidential race, the French email leak had little if any impact and Macron still handily beat Le Pen.

The messages have since been picked over by the French press, although WikiLeaks' move on Monday may draw new attention to them.

WikiLeaks, which was founded by Australian Julian Assange, said it verified its batch of emails using DomainKeys Identified Mail - or DKIM - signatures, a cryptographic protocol that acts like a digital shipping manifest and has become an increasingly popular way for researchers and tech-savvy journalists to prove that emails are authentic.

WikiLeaks said the rest of the emails - about 50,000 of them - were being included "for context".

The mystery of who was behind the initial leak of the Macron campaign emails remains unresolved.

The head of France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI said in June there was no evidence tying the hacking of the Macron campaign emails to any particular actor, saying it "really could be anyone".


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Published 1 August 2017 6:20am
Source: AAP


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