It's Happening. Lets Get Digging.
Nearly 3 months after the French presidential elections the hacked emails, of the now French president Emmanual Macron, have been verified and published by Wikileaks. The total searchable archive of 71,848 emails contains 26,506 attachments and are from from 4,493 unique senders. These emails range from 20 March 2009 to 24 April 2017.
Out of the 71,848 documents only 21,075 emails have been individually forensically verified by WikiLeaks through its DKIM system. The rest of the documents, Wikileaks states in their press release, have been "provided for context".
Domain Keys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is a highly regarded email security system that can be used to independently authenticate the contents and sender of an email that uses it.
They go on to provide further details on why only a portion of the leaks were verified:
WikiLeaks only certifies as verified the 21,075 emails marked with its green "DKIM verified" banner however based on statistical sampling the overwheling majority of the rest of the emails archive are authentic. As the emails are often in chains and include portions of each other it is usually possible to confirm the integrity other emails in the chain as a result of the DKIM verified emails within it.
Wikileaks have been quick to point out that this email hack was unlikely the work of Russian state actors and is more than likely the work of an "isolated individual" by refering to an AP interview with Guillaume Poupard, the head of French government cyber security agency ANSS on June 1st.
AP Interview: France warns of risk of war in cyberspace | AP News - 06/01/2017
Poupard described the Macron campaign hack as "not very technological" and said: "The attack was so generic and simple that it could have been practically anyone."
Without ruling out the possibility that a state might have been involved, he said the attack's simplicity "means that we can imagine that it was a person who did this alone. They could be in any country."
"It really could be anyone. It could even be an isolated individual," he said.
Poupard contrasted the "Macron Leaks" hack with another far more sophisticated attack that took French broadcaster TV5 Monde off the air in 2015. There, "very specific tools were used to destroy the equipment" in the attack that "resembles a lot what we call collectively APT28," he said.
"To say 'Macron Leaks' was APT28, I'm absolutely incapable today of doing that," he said. "I have absolutely no element to say whether it is true or false."
Rogers, the NSA director, said in his Senate Armed Services hearing that U.S. authorities gave their French counterparts "a heads-up" before the Macron documents leaked that: "'We are watching the Russians. We are seeing them penetrate some of your infrastructure. Here is what we have seen. What can we do to try to assist?'"
Poupard said Rogers' comments left him perplexed and that the French had long been on alert about potential threats to their presidential election.
"Why did Admiral Rogers say that, like that, at that time? It really surprised me. It really surprised my European allies. And to be totally frank, when I spoke about it to my NSA counterparts and asked why did he say that, they didn't really know how to reply either," he said. "Perhaps he went further than what he really wanted to say."
Here is a post I put together at the time of the initial leaks that includes all of the 4chan links and also some news articles giving a brief rundown of how it happened.
MACRON LEAKS | How Much Is Real And What We Know So Far | Steemit @Fortified - 05/07/2017
Over the last 24 hours there has been quite a frenzy online. An hour before the traditional media black out that happens 48 hours before every election a 9GB data dump was linked on /pol/, one of the messaging boards on 4Chan.org. It contains what appears to be some or all of Emmanuel Macrons campaign database.
Some news articles from the day they were made public for the first time.
Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking Attack | The New York Times - MAY 5, 2017
On the eve of the most consequential French presidential election in decades, the staff of the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said late Friday that the campaign had been targeted by a “massive and coordinated” hacking operation, one with the potential to destabilize the nation’s democracy before voters go to the polls on Sunday.
Are Emmanuel Macron’s Tax Evasion Documents Real? | GotNews.com - May 4, 2017
BREAKING: MACRON BUSTED! Lied About Tax Evasion? | 4Chan /pol/ Posts Images from Macron’s Off-Shore Bank Account! - Gateway Pundit - May 4th, 2017
https://wikileaks.org/macron-emails/
Well after 3 months they are finally here. So like I said at the beginning of this post....
Lets Get Digging
