Peter Edwards reports:
Toronto police are denying the allegations in a U.S. court document that says names and addresses of more than 500 confidential police informants were hacked by an online group led by a former U.S. navy nuclear systems administrator.
The tiny American group, known as “Team Digi7al,” successfully attacked Toronto police computers between May 23 and June 1, 2012, according to a document filed this week by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in a Tulsa, Okla., court.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
“No informants were compromised,” Toronto police spokesman Kevin Masterman said Thursday. “They didn’t breach any internal systems.”
So will the Toronto police be called as defense witnesses?
Read more on the Toronto Star.