The Washington bureau chief for a Canadian far-right media site has been linked to a massive computer hack of the French president-elect's campaign emails just days before that election.



Emmanuel Macron's campaign En Marche! confirmed Friday that it had been hacked, after several gigs of data were posted to Pastebin, a site that allows anonymous document sharing, according to Reuters.

En Marche! said later that hackers had mixed authentic documents with fake ones, in order to “sow doubt,” according to The New Yorker.

Though it was not clear who posted the data or if any of it was genuine, it showed up on 4Chan, a site popular with nationalist trolls.

Jack Posobiec, Rebel Media's Washington bureau chief, spread the hashtag #MacronLeaks after spotting the leak on 4Chan.

'Logical' to share what he found

"People were claiming something big was coming, so I just kept hitting refresh," he told The New Yorker.

Although he couldn't immediately verify the emails' authenticity, he said it was "logical" to share what he found on Twitter, according to a Rebel Media video he posted Tuesday.