If you thought that the American election last year was the only one that the Russians would get dragged into-think again. Yesterday French Presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron’s campaign announced that it had been hacked. All this happened before the French government’s ban on campaigning and “commentary likely to effect an election” took effect with the announcement coming just hours prior the cut off at midnight Friday. This comes weeks after the campaign had complained about repeated attempts to hack their emails, and had blamed Russian hackers for the attempts, during the hotly contested campaign between Macron and Marine LePen-a second generation politician and former leader of the National Front party. According to Japanese firm Trend Micro, the hackers who succeeded in hacking them last night appear to be linked to Russia, though the company stopped short of definitively naming the state as the culprit.
Just in time for New Years Eve, the Washington Post breathlessly reported that ZOMG!! The Russians hacked the entire…I mean the ENTIRE electrical grid across the United…
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