The #MacronLeaks operation: a post-mortem

A detailed reconstruction of the 2017 hack-and-leak against Emmanuel Macron's En Marche campaign — the spear-phishing, the dump of roughly nine gigabytes of emails timed just before the mandatory pre-election media blackout, the forged documents mixed in, the bot-driven amplification, and the attribution to Russian military intelligence — concluding the operation failed to change the election's outcome.