Labour Party donors will be revealed today, when a right-wing blogger leaks secret information.
Cameron Slater, who writes the Whale Oil blog, says he obtained the documents after a breach in Labour's systems.
He says they show the party allegedly misusing Parliamentary Services funding for campaigning purposes.
Mr Slater says Labour has been lax with its security.
“I think they should be very worried and concerned. Their information systems weren’t compromised through anything other than incompetence. It’s been freely available for more than six months,” he says.
Mr Slater says there's no truth to speculation the National Party was involved in obtaining the information.
Mr Slater plans to start publishing confidential Labour information on his Whale Oil blog this morning.
He says the party's not alone in rorting the system.
“Most of the political parties are doing it. Every political party will have people who are rorting the system. So what I am really going to be calling for is for there to be a comprehensive and thorough review done about the rorts that are going on and the funding of political parties through the back door.”
Meanwhile, Labour says all the people whose privacy may have been
compromised
- have been informed.
President Moira Coatsworth says the database includes a list of people
who have used the website to donate to the Stop Asset Sales campaign - and to
join the party.
“We understand it has been a malicious breach. We accept responsibility
for the fact it was able to occur. We unreservedly apologise and are doing
everything we can to minimise the impact.”
Moira Coatsworth says one of the earliest downloads appears to be from
an internet address belonging to a National Party head office mail server.
After the 2005 election, most parties repaid Parliamentary Services funding they'd misused on electioneering, totalling more than a million dollars.
Labour repaid the most, topping $700,000.
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