The National Party has admitted that it accessed personal information after it discovered a security flaw in a Labour Party website, The National Business Review reports. The security flaw allowed free downloads from a database that contained a list of names and e-mail addresses of approximately 18,000 individuals as well as recent donation amounts. The report states that a blogger claims he has the compromised data and has said he will publish the donor names. The Labour Party has apologised to its donors. Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff is aware of the incident, saying, "I understand the information gained has also been sent to third parties. This chain of events concerns me."
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