Presidential Campaign Account Hacked

US far-right activists helped amplify a leak of hacked emails belonging to leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign, some researchers said on Saturday, with automated bots and the Twitter account of WikiLeaks also propelling a leak that came two days before France's presidential vote.

The campaign team of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron on Friday blasted a "massive and coordinated hacking attack" after internal documents including emails and accounting papers were released online.

Russian hackers did not break into the computers of Donald Trump's presidential campaign or active accounts of the Republican National Committee, FBI chief James Comey said Tuesday.

A State Department official appeared to coordinate with Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign hours before the former secretary of state's exclusive use of private emails was first detailed in a news account last year, newly released hacked emails show.

Senior staff members on Hillary Clinton's nascent campaign were conscious about diversity in the top ranks two months before the Democratic presidential candidate formally announced her bid, according to hacked emails from the personal account of a top campaign official.

After Juanita Broaddrick, who has long accused former president Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, repeated those allegations in a January tweet, aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton quickly moved to gather information that could be used to undermine her account, hacked internal campaign emails released Saturday by the group ...

US intelligence chief James Clapper has said there were "some indications" that cyber hackers were trying to infiltrate presidential campaigns.

Tens of thousands of Gmail accounts belonging to Iranian users have been targeted in an extensive hacking campaign in the weeks leading up to the country's closely watched presidential elections on Friday, Google said on Wednesday.

Authorities are investigating a report that Mitt Romney's personal email account has been hacked, his presidential campaign said on Tuesday. The website Gawker reported that an unnamed hacker had broken into the Republican flagbearer's private Hotmail account by guessing the answer to a security question about Mr Romney's favourite pet.

US far-right activists helped amplify a leak of hacked emails belonging to leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign, some researchers said on Saturday, with automated bots and the Twitter account of WikiLeaks also propelling a leak that came two days before France's presidential vote.

The campaign team of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron on Friday blasted a "massive and coordinated hacking attack" after internal documents including emails and accounting papers were released online.

Russian hackers did not break into the computers of Donald Trump's presidential campaign or active accounts of the Republican National Committee, FBI chief James Comey said Tuesday.

A State Department official appeared to coordinate with Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign hours before the former secretary of state's exclusive use of private emails was first detailed in a news account last year, newly released hacked emails show.

Senior staff members on Hillary Clinton's nascent campaign were conscious about diversity in the top ranks two months before the Democratic presidential candidate formally announced her bid, according to hacked emails from the personal account of a top campaign official.

After Juanita Broaddrick, who has long accused former president Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, repeated those allegations in a January tweet, aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton quickly moved to gather information that could be used to undermine her account, hacked internal campaign emails released Saturday by the group ...

US intelligence chief James Clapper has said there were "some indications" that cyber hackers were trying to infiltrate presidential campaigns.

Tens of thousands of Gmail accounts belonging to Iranian users have been targeted in an extensive hacking campaign in the weeks leading up to the country's closely watched presidential elections on Friday, Google said on Wednesday.

Authorities are investigating a report that Mitt Romney's personal email account has been hacked, his presidential campaign said on Tuesday. The website Gawker reported that an unnamed hacker had broken into the Republican flagbearer's private Hotmail account by guessing the answer to a security question about Mr Romney's favourite pet.