Mayoral Candidate Furious Over Stolen Email
Posted October 20, 2006 12:00 pm.
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If you think politics here are nasty, just head to the City Above Toronto.
With just weeks to go before the big November 13th vote, even the police are becoming involved in what’s happening in Vaughan.
Councillor Linda Jackson, the daughter of former Mayor Lorna Jackson and a challenger for Michael Di Biase’s throne, claims someone tapped into her private email on Thanksgiving Day, then dropped the secret correspondence right on Di Biase’s doorstep.
She doesn’t know who’s behind the breach, but she’s understandably outraged.
“How my e-mail could be hacked into, it’s just unbelievable,” she fumes. “This is really outrageous. I’m extremely upset.”
Some of the emails were relatively benign, letters between Jackson and her husband. Others were about a sex scandal brewing at Vaughan City Hall, but the majority were to a police officer and centered on investigations involving the city. “York Regional Police reached out to me and asked me to assist them with an investigation,” she explains.
The city has now launched an official complaint against cops for the breach but insists its computer security is intact and can’t account for how the information was accessed.
But Jackson wants outside parties to probe the crime. “The integrity of our whole electronic system at the city of Vaughan, I believe, is still in jeopardy. We have a lot of very private information that the residents of Vaughan have on our servers. How do we know that those are protected?”
York’s Chief reveals he’s already started his own internal inquiry, but adds the results of any investigation could take months and won’t come until well after the November 13 election.
