Oshawa, Ont., man charged after allegedly stealing, leaking Texas Republican Party data

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 04, 2025 12:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

An Ontario antheral is facing charges successful an alleged theft and leak of Texas Republican Party information successful 2021.

The U.S. Department of Justice says the 37-old-man from Oshawa was arrested past week and is facing charges nether Canadian law.

It says the accused gained unauthorized entree to a third-party hosting company's machine strategy to "deface and download a backup of Texas Republican Party's server."

The justness section says the man claimed work for the cyberattack connected societal media and a hunt of his physics devices showed helium was "in possession of the information stolen from the Texas Republican Party."

Officials accidental the stolen information contained idiosyncratic accusation and was allegedly distributed online and made disposable for downloading.

The antheral has been charged with unlawfully transferring, possessing, oregon utilizing a means of recognition successful transportation with amerciable activity.

U.S. officials accidental the FBI Austin Cyber Task Force is investigating the case, with assistance from Ontario Provincial Police and Durham Regional Police Service.