N.Z. Checks Police Computer for Israeli Spy Hacking, Post Says
New Zealand intelligence officers are checking the police national computer because of concerns that Israeli spies may have hacked into it, the Dominion Post reported, citing a Security Intelligence Service officer it didn’t name.
An Israeli forensic team in Christchurch to help identify victims of the Feb. 22 earthquake could have had access to the computer system, and activities of other groups of Israelis around that time fueled the hacking concerns, the officer said, according to the Post.
Those activities included the discovery of five passports on one man who died in the earthquake and the presence of an unaccredited Israeli search and rescue team inside the city cordon, the newspaper reported.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key declined to comment on the report because it wasn’t in the national interest, the Post said, citing his comments to reporters. He was aware of some of the incidents that occurred but was satisfied there had been no misuse of the police computer, the newspaper said.
Suggestions of spying were “science fiction,” Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand Shemi Tzur told the Post.
To contact the reporter on this story: Tracy Withers in Wellington at twithers@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Garfield Reynolds at greynolds1@bloomberg.net
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