the blackout deadline arrives at midnight local time. just before that blackout deadline arrived, which shuts down all election related news and discussion in the french media. just before that midnight local time deadline tonight, macron campaign suffered a huge cyber attack. all of their internal stuff got posted online. their internal documents, internal e-mails. things like contracts, accounting documents, strategy documents, all apparently hacked off their campaign servers, all posted online at paste bin. it s apparently about nine gigabytes worth of data. it is legitimate material that is authentic that was definitely stolen off their servers. but they say, whoever posted it mixed in fake documentation as well as alongside the real stuff which is a hallmark of a well run weaponized hacng attack. now, in terms of who dun it? it doesn t seem like the people who did it tried very hard to cover up their tracks.