headquarters in new york. new today, hackers targeting the french election. a day after a rumor of fake news. emmanuel macron says this is similar to the scene in the elections for 2016. nbc s matt bradley has more on this for us. good morning. reporter: good morning, thomas. this really up ended so much about the election in france. this was released on fortune last night. it came before a two-day media blackout which is when politicians and media can t talk about politics and they can t defend from allegations. today, the presidential race that s rattled france rattled again late last night. news of a last-minute hacking attack. data and thousands of e-mails and documents stolen a few weeks
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run weaponized hacking attack. now, in terms of whodunit? it doesn t 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 that s called a.p.t. 28. a.p.t. 28 appears to be the perpetrator of this attack. they re 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 the intelligence documents about the attack on our election. fancy bear, a.p.t. 28, they are one of the groups named by u.s. intelligence agencies have carried out a similar attack on the clinton campaign last year and on the servers of the democratic party. all that stuff posted on d.c. leaks and wikileaks. in france they ve posted it on paste bin but internal documents
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 what s happened. hi, greg. reporter: leland, it sounds like something right out of last year s u.s. elections, but the leader of this campaign, emmanuel macron, has been hit by what his supporters call a massive cyber attack, a data dump. thousands and thousands of e-mails and documents coming from the campaign have been posted online, most of the material according to reports is routine, but combined with what authorities say say is fake news, obviously, aimed at
and major drama ahead of tomorrow s 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. i m 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 there s no question that that had a great effect? it had occurred to you that the public chastisement put secretary clinton in a negative light. democrats, of course, including hillary clinton herself blaming the fbi director for her loss in the election, but sabrina says they ll keep losing as long as they re not addressing the