Personal details of SA Liberal members breached
The SA Liberal Party has called in police over “unauthorised access” to the personal information of about 2000 of its members.
Liberal Party HQ in Adelaide. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily
In a statement released a short time ago, SA Liberal state director Alex May said several of the party’s membership lists containing the addresses and phone numbers of approximately 2000 members had been breached.
She said no financial details were accessed and “expert advice” received by the party indicated that the breach was “unlikely to create a risk of serious harm to individuals”.
“The Liberal Party (SA Division) respects the privacy of our members which is why we are disappointed there has recently been some unauthorised access to a number of membership lists,” May said.
“Affected members have been informed directly and the expert advice received is that the accessing of these contact details is unlikely to create a risk of serious harm to individuals.
“We thank our members for their ongoing support of our party.”
InDaily understands the lists were fraudulently accessed by one or several people impersonating party officials, with the party reporting the matter to police this week.
May said affected party members had been informed directly of the data breach.
InDaily has contacted May for further comment.
In a statement, SA Police said its eastern district criminal investigation branch had recently commenced an investigation into deception offences involving “the alleged release of details of members of a political party”.
They said the matter was reported on Tuesday.
It follows several large-scale data hacks involving telco Optus and health insurance provider Medibank.
SA Health yesterday revealed thousands of clients from a home hospital service were impacted by the Medibank breach.
