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Did the Conservatives just blame web host Koallo for hacked CC details?

Thu, 9th June 2011, 02:02

 The Conservative Party of Canada confirmed that hackers had accessed information on their website, including the names, addresses and partial credit card numbers of some of their online donors.

Conservative Party communication director Fred DeLorey says the party is investigating the matter and is working with the authorities. "It has come to our attention today that information that was stored by our web site host was hacked into. The information contains names, addresses, and email addresses of people who donated online through our web host," DeLorey said in a statement.

HostJury is attempting to clarify the statement by Fred Delorey which appears to cast some blame on the Conservative Party Canadian web host Koallo which is located in Ottawa.

The hackers, who go by the name The Lulz Raft on Twitter claim to be behind the Prime Minister Stephen Harper's "hashbrown breakfast fail" hoax on Tuesday, They posted a partial list of Tory donors on Wednesday morning.

"The conservatives said no contributor data was accessed..I wonder where this sample came from then," The Lulz Raft posted on Twitter, adding a link to a website showing names and email addresses under the banner, "Donation Contributors – A Small Sample."

The website titled “Conservative Donation Contributers” included a list of 1,719 names and email addresses and an option to download thousands more. The list no longer appears to be online. DeLorey said the first four and last four digits of credit cards were accessed in some cases, but not enough information to be "useful, and that party's internal database was not hacked.  (Another interesting statement...were they just kept in bullet form on a page?)

The following who-is and trace route is courtesy of network-tools.com

Whois of conservative.ca


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