Hacker infiltrates PM’s website
Posted Jun 7, 2011 10:33:17 AM.
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It appears no one is safe from a hack attack, not even our Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed the official Conservative website was hacked, Tuesday morning, carrying an untrue story about a health scare for the PM.
The story said Harper was eating breakfast when he choked on a piece of hash brown. It went on to say his wife Laureen called 911 and Harper was then airlifted to Toronto General Hospital.
Director of Communications for the Conservatives, Fred DeLorey, said the story is absolutely false.
“Someone gained unauthorized access and posted a false story. We are looking into it.”
DeLorey added the Prime Minister took his daughter Rachel to school Tuesday and went to work on Parliament Hill.
And now it appears someone seems to be claiming responsibility.
Earlier Tuesday if you clicked on the contact section of the Conservative website it brought you to the Twitter account for someone from the United States with the username Lulz Raft.
The user tweeted they would tick off a lot of Canadians and wondered if anyone noticed their “special article” on the Conservative website.
Although the notice has been taken down, it did spread like wildfire on the Internet with people retweeting it as fact – including Tory MP Chris Alexander.
