Herald exposes website poll hacker

Now that’s quick service!

I blogged this morning that the Herald should publish the IP address of the person or persons multiple voting in their online polls, and they have.

A person at 222.152.66.116. (222-152-66-116.jetstream.xtra.co.nz) voted 5,000 times in around 10 minutes.

As I said this morning, this has now happened around ten times to online polls, and without fail it has always been someone changing a poll which wasn’t good for Labour to one which was good for Labour.

I wonder if the hacker has breached the computer crimes section of the Crimes Act and one could get a warrant to reveal the customer who was using the IP address at that time. I don’t want them prosecuted, but suspect revealing their identity would be incredibly interesting.

Anyway kudos to the Herald for taking the time to expose what happened, and for putting in steps to stop a repeat.