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Effect? >> reporter: well, it was put -- this hack was announced, it was released really just hours before the ban went into effect. it was really -- the statement from the macron campaign came out at 11:30 last night or around that time. that was about half an hour before the ban started. so they were able to say that this was a broadside meant to not only damage macron but also diminish confidence in the entire french system, much in the way intelligence officials feel that the hacking last year during the campaign for the u.s. presidential election was targeted not just against hillary clin...

>> right. >> but these are just repositories and hash tags that are just used in order to disseminate the stolen information. this information was, again, massive. this was not something that one individual can do. it was all done in native french. it appears to have been curated in some cases appears to use fake propaganda, fake documents inserted into a stream of real documents. all of these things are designed to damage macron. >> now, you said big, 14 gigabytes, right, of e-mails there? some 70,000 files we understand according to one analysis. >> yeah. >> you're saying this is a big bunch...