NZ Justice Minister scalped as hacker leaks emails

  • 1 September 2014
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By Darren Pauli, 1 Sep 2014
 
A hacker has claimed the scalp of New Zealand Justice Minister Judith Collins by releasing information showing a purported campaign to undermine government officials.
The revelations, revealed last month, came from a hacker known as RawShark (@whaledump), who broke into the email account of conservative blogger Cameron Slater. It was claimed in the book Dirty Politics that New Zealand Prime Minister John Key helped release a Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) document to Slater, whose WhaleOil blog was a purported smear wagon used by the Government
 
Hacked emails indicated controversial financier Mark Hotchin paid Slater and fellow conservative blogger Cathy Odgers to write articles that attacked New Zealand's Serious Fraud Office director Ada Feeley and the Financial Markets Authority, which were investigating his company,
 
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/01/leaker_axe_claims_nz_justice_minister_scalp/

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This is fascinating - I'm thinking that in the future the only way to really keep things private is to never let them leave the inside of your head.  And even that might not be enough with the future of FMRI technology.

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