French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been the victim of a “massive and coordinated hacking operation,” his campaign team said, slamming the attack as a last-ditch attempt to undermine him before Sunday’s election. “A large trove of emails from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, one and a half days before voters go to the polls to choose the country’s next president in a run-off against far-right rival Marine Le Pen,” Reuters reports. party said in a statement that the perpetrators of the hack had mixed fake documents with authentic ones “to create confusion and misinformation.”

“The leak happened in the last hours of the campaign.
Files purportedly from the campaign of Emmanuel Macron are posted online. Macron campaign officials say the files are a mix of fake and authentic documents and drew parallels with what happened in the 2016 US Presidential elections.