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Hacker ‘Rawshark’ disrupts NZ election campaign

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Dissent

Rob O’Neill reports that the hacking of blogger Cameron Slater’s Whale Oil email account, and the exposure of those emails (and other materials apparently not from his email account) in a book and to the media is disrupting national elections in New Zealand:

New Zealand cabinet minister Judith Collins resigned yesterday in what appears to be a direct response to the hacking of a controversial blogger’s email.

The resignation is a blow to the ruling National Party which, while well ahead in the polls, has seen its campign plan torn apart by a series of unexpected and unwelcome disclosures.

[…]

Ironically, the email that forced Collins to resign does not appear to have been part of that cache. It was received some time last week by the Prime Minister’s office from a source the office agreed to keep confidential.

Prime Minister John Key released the email when announcing Collins’ resignation yesterday, attracting one of a flurry of complaints to the Privacy Commissioner following the hacking, Whale Oil complained that in releasing it, Key himself breached New Zealand’s privacy laws.

Read more on ZDNet.

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