The media has been warned not to publish the contents of hacked emails from Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign.
France's electoral commission has said any organisations that circulate information from the leaked messages may be committing a criminal offence.
On Friday, Mr Macron's campaign team confirmed it had fallen victim to a "massive hacking attack" which resulted in hundreds of internal documents being dumped online.
About nine gigabytes of data was posted by an anonymous user called EMLEAKS, only hours before the end of official election campaigning.
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The En Marche! party has said the files only showed the normal functioning of a presidential campaign, but claimed fake documents were being circulated alongside authentic ones in order to sow "doubt and misinformation".
Aides have alleged those behind the cyberattack were attempting to destabilise Sunday's final round between Mr Macron and his far-right rival Marine Le Pen.
The officials drew comparisons with the emails leaked from Hillary Clinton's campaign in the run-up to last November's presidential election in the US.
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