WikiLeaks Releases 71,800 Hacked Emails Linked To President Emmanuel Macron

WikiLeaks has released an archive of 21,075 "verified" emails linked to the election campaign of French president Emmanuel Macron, previously leaked by unknown hackers on 5 May earlier this year, 48 hours before citizens Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the polls.

The emails range from 20 March 2009 to 24 April 2017, WikiLeaks said in a statement sent via email on Monday 31 July. The controversial anti-secrecy website said that a full archive of "71,848 emails with 26,506 attachments from 4,493 unique senders" had been provided for context.

They are now published online in a searchable format.

WikiLeaks said it had managed to verify 21,075 emails but said that "based on statistical sampling the overwheling (sic) majority of the rest of the emails" were authentic. On 1 June, the French government said that, upon analysis, it had found no links to Russian hackers.

"[The hack] was so generic and simple that it could have been practically anyone," said cybersecurity chief Guillaume Poupard, while speaking to the Associated Press (AP) .

Declassified US intelligence – the assessment of the NSA, FBI and CIA warned in January 2017 that Moscow-linked hackers would continue to conduct "influence efforts worldwide" in the future following a slew of successful cyberattacks across the US, France and Germany.

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