Police probe cyber attack on Liberals

This is a nasty business but I am confident it was an isolated act -- every Party (even ours!) has people who will act badly. All that said, it does reflect a lack of Party discipline which is hardly surprising in light of the recent failure to get their Leader into the House. Perhaps they will have a revival with a new Leader. While I am a strong Liberal, provincial and federal, we need a viable opposition.

Police probe cyber attack on Liberals
TheStar.com - Ontario - Police probe cyber attack on Liberals
PC staffer resigns after alleged hacking of party's website


QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU CHIEF
Toronto police are investigating an alleged attempt by a Progressive Conservative to hack into the Ontario Liberal party's website.

Interim Tory Leader Bob Runciman said a PC staffer, who was initially suspended, has resigned after the alleged tampering was traced to two computers located in the Conservative offices in the north wing of the Legislature.

"I'm absolutely not happy with this," Runciman, a former solicitor general, said last night.
"We're co-operating fully with the police on this. There's no reason to keep this behind the curtain," he said, declining to name the former staffer as criminal charges could be laid.
The Liberals first learned their website, www.ontarioliberal.ca, had been compromised on Feb. 19.

A subsequent check found that computers located at Queen's Park were apparently used to do the hacking and, following an internal probe by the Legislative Assembly, police were called in.
Christine McMillan, the Liberal party's vice-president of communications, said there were "a series of deliberate attacks on the security of our website."

In a statement, McMillan said there was concern over the safety of "personal information stored in our servers."

"As we undertook an internal investigation of the breach of our website, we discovered that the breach appeared to originate from within the Ontario Legislature," she said.