Alberta MLA Thomas Dang charged with Health Information Act breach, could face $200K fine
An Alberta legislature member investigated by the RCMP after admitting to hacking right into a authorities well being web site is being charged below the province’s Well being Info Act.
The Alberta RCMP Cybercrime Investigative Workforce says it has charged Thomas Dang for illegally making an attempt to entry personal info contained within the Alberta Well being vaccine portal.
If convicted, the second-term MLA for Edmonton-South may face a tremendous as much as $200,000.
He is scheduled to seem in court docket July 27.
Dang resigned from the NDP caucus when he grew to become conscious of the RCMP probe in December 2021.
Police investigated after Dang admitted to utilizing his pc to observe up on a tip from a constituent about potential loopholes that have been permitting entry to individuals’s personal well being info on the province’s COVID-19 vaccine web site.
He later stated that when he bumped into roadblocks making an attempt to breach the vaccination website, he used Premier Jason Kenney’s start date and vaccination dates — each publicly obtainable — which allowed him to breach the location’s privateness safeguards.
He has been sitting within the Home as an Impartial however says he needs to return to caucus.
