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Run weaponized hacking attack. now, in terms of whodunit? it doesnt seem like the people who did it tried very hard to cover up their tracks. analysts thus far say the evidence pretty clearly points to a hacking group thats called a.p.t. 28. a.p.t. 28 appears to be the perpetrator of this attack. theyre a hacking group associated with russian military intelligence. you may remember the name -- the more memorable name that they also used to describe them which is fancy bear. remember that from th...

Responsible for the brutal sucker punch murder of a father of five in las vegas. ♪ ♪ leland: voters hit the polls tomorrow in france to decide a presidential election that could change europe and global politics as we know it. but today one campaign is in crisis control after it says it suffered a massive and coordinated hacking attack. greg talcott is live in paris with whats happened. hi, greg. >> reporter: leland, it sounds like something right out of last years u.s. elections, but the le...

And major drama ahead of tomorrows election in france. a watch dog saying a significant amount of data has been leaked online following a hacking attack against presidential candidate emmanuel macron, only 36 hours before voters go to the polls in a runoff sunday pitting macron against nationalist candidate marine le pen. im leland vittert. now back to forbes on fox. >> i join those who believe that the actions taken by the fbi did, in fact, have an impact on the election. >> but theres no quest...

It warrants. well, new today, a hacking attack against the front-runner in the french presidential elections. hackers published documents stolen from emmanuel macrons e-mails. it came hours before a midnight deadline from campaigning, preventing him from responding. joining me is david ignatius. >> hi, good to be here. >> whats your initial take of all of this? >> my initial take is that its not likely to have decisive effect on the french election. macron was well ahead in the latest poll tak...

Tonight their time this story just took a very serious turn. it was just before the blackout deadline arrived. the blackout deadline arrives at midnight local time. just before that blackout deadline arrived, which shuts down all election related news and discussion in the french media. just before that midnight local time deadline tonight, macron campaign suffered a huge cyber attack. all of their internal stuff got posted online. their internal documents, internal e-mails. things like contract...

Matt, good morning. what has been the rehabilitation of this and hokd this potentially sway the election? >> good morning. its not clear how this is going to actually throw the election in either way. but it does appear to be strategically timed, as you mention. it came just moments before a two-day long media blackout when politicians cant discuss politics and cant defend themselves. >> today, the presidential race that rattled france rattled again late last night. news of a last minute hacking...

Influential country thats quaking at its foundations? even if you dont care about france, this election in france is an earthquake. its an earthquake even if marine le pen does not win. the two main political parties in that country, their equivalent of democrats and republicans, those two parties have traded the president for 50 years. neither of those parties got a candidate into the runoff this time. they are also coping with russia and putin playing in their politics. vladimir putin is suppo...

The two main political parties in that country, their equivalent of democrats and republicans, those two parties have traded the president for 50 years. neither of those parties got a candidate into the runoff this time. they are also coping with russia and putin playing in their politics. vladimir putin is supporting le pen. russian brangs loaned her millions of euros. the "wall street journal" reports le pens opponent, the centrist emanual macron has been targeted by an intensive, high-level h...

How is the administration dealing with being the richest and most influential country thats quaking at its foundations? even if you dont care about france, this election in france is an earthquake. its an earthquake even if marine le pen does not win. the two main political parties in that country, their equivalent of democrats and republicans, those two parties have traded the french presidency for 50 years. neither of those parties got a candidate into the runoff this time. they are also copin...

Trapped with the information they had? >> i think that wikileaks, by virtue of the classified information they had and the fact that the russians knew what kind of classified information was there, that russia used that information as part of the hacking attack on the united states to influence our election. i would not be surprised if the fbi and the investigations that are going on confirmed that kind of collusion. >> thank you so much, former secretary of defense and former cia director and f...