The Alberta RCMP cybercrime investigative team charged the now independent, former Alberta NDP MLA with illegally attempting to access private vaccine status information collected and maintained by Alberta Health Services.
Former NDP MLA Thomas Dang charged under Health Information Act
— Edmonton Journal (@edmontonjournal) June 24, 2022
Dang is accused of “illegally attempting to access private information contained in the Alberta Health Services vaccine portal.”https://t.co/Cr2KoZLxTV#Abpoli #crime pic.twitter.com/hk0VoE9bd1
Dang, the MLA for Edmonton South faces a potential $200,000 in fines under the Health Information Protection Act after admitting to hacking into the AHS website which contains the vaccine status of millions of Albertans.
Dang used Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's birthday and the dates of the premier's COVID-19 vaccine doses (which the premier posted about on his social media platforms) to access the information Dang knew he did not have legal access to.
Notley NDP MLA Thomas Dang has admitted to hacking Alberta's vaccine records portal using an identity that wasn't his own. Now it's time for Rachel Notley to come clean: what did she know and when did she know it?
— United Conservative Caucus 🇺🇦 (@UCPCaucus) March 22, 2022
Must watch video 👇#AbLeg #VaxHack pic.twitter.com/r2zGeBfKV3
Though Dang was removed from the NDP caucus and now sits as an independent, CBC reports that Dang wants to return to caucus and questions still swirl about what the NDP leader, Rachel Notley, knew about Dang's actions and when she knew it.
BREAKING: Notley's story was that she had no knowledge of Dang hacking Alberta's vaccine records system before December. Now she admits she knew Dang "found a flaw" in September.
— United Conservative Caucus 🇺🇦 (@UCPCaucus) March 24, 2022
Notley must come clean on what she knew & when!
Release ➡️ https://t.co/v00fNbdIeW#ableg #vaxhack pic.twitter.com/kUQOdPdySJ
Dang's home was previously raided by RCMP in December, though at the time NDP refused to disclose why.
NDP Leader Rachel Notley is up now, saying Edmonton-South MLA Thomas Dang is out of NDP caucus after RCMP executed a search warrant of his home. Could be related to issue of disclosure of AHS health information, but Notley says she doesn't know what the specific allegation is.
— Lisa Johnson (@reportrix) December 21, 2021
Dang's next court date is July 27.
