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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 22 2018, @01:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the insider-threats dept.

The National Post reports:

A former employee of Ontario's 407 private freeway quit suddenly Wednesday as a Progressive Conservative candidate in next month's election, barely an hour after the highway confirmed that information on 60,000 customers had been leaked through an "internal theft."

Simmer Sandhu, the candidate for Brampton East, said in an online statement that he had recently been made aware of anonymous allegations against him "pertaining to both my work life and my nomination campaign."

"These allegations are totally baseless. I absolutely deny them," he said on both Twitter and Facebook. "I will vigorously defend myself and reputation and I am confident I will be cleared."

An opinion piece explains the anonymous allegations:

[...] it is alleged that someone stole 60,000 names, addresses and phone numbers from the privately-owned Highway 407 ETR's internal systems and distributed or sold the data to a couple of dozen candidates in GTA nomination races. Those campaigns then sold fake party memberships under the stolen names, mocked up identification that met the party's requirements (which do not include photo ID), and paid international students $200 a pop to vote under these fraudulent identities.

Wikipedia has an article about the Brampton East riding.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @05:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @05:18PM (#683630)

    Today's news adds on to my earlier post about Doug's sketchy behaviour. Incidentally the timelines match up with the November membership breach: http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/doug-ford-accused-of-buying-memberships-to-help-preferred-candidate-win-tory-nomination [nationalpost.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @05:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @05:35PM (#683639)

    oops, wrong year. It was November 2016, not 2017.

    less sketchy than it would have been in November 2017.