“If someone’s asking a question or asking or acting in a way that does not feel right, you need to question that,” she said. Ever.” Danger to the public is real, and trust your gutĪdams said that whenever anyone has a digital exchange, even when with trusted individuals, that people should be aware of warning signs that something might be off.
“This is us making a stand on principles that I have made well known, and ones that I intend to never back down on. “This is a collective responsibility for all of us to stand on, strongly, and not allow this to not only infiltrate our politics, but the people who are in the public, or female journalists, or anyone else,” Aheer said. She denounced the vileness of the attack made against her personally and against her campaign, and said that now was a time for Albertans to make a stand-irrespective of politics. “The RCMP are involved because it’s criminal, and yes I hope they catch the person,” said Aheer. Investigation into the breaches of her campaign page, and her personal page have been opened with the RCMP. “Over the past few weeks I have outlined my principles, and the fact that I will never tolerate bigotry in a government that I lead, and I believe that these attacks on my account was driven by people who want to silence my voice and derail our campaign,” she said. The individual or individual who had breached the accounts shared posts that went against Facebook’s standards on child nudity and sexual exploitation. x4LqenpTud- Leela Sharon Aheer AugAheer believes hack was politically motivatedĪheer, during a press conference with the media held on Wednesday morning, said that she believed the hacking of her Facebook pages was a targeted political attack against her.Īheer, was visibly shaken by the breaches during the press conference, and said that she had spent the previous day with Strathmore RCMP’s victim services. This is a targeted attack and I woke up to messages stating that my account is being used for sexual exploitation. A spokesperson for the health service said they were not aware if any messages had been sent or not.ĪHS said public updates would come through their media account on Twitter at to politics! My personal and public Facebook accounts have been hacked.
LiveWire Calgary asked AHS if the account had been used to send messages to other Facebook users impersonating AHS EMS. “AHS does not use Facebook or any social media platform to share or store patient information,” they said.
“We are actively working with Facebook to assist in shutting down the page as a short term solution,” an AHS emailed statement read.ĪHS said that the Facebook page was only used to provide public education and EMS related information, and that no patient information was breached in the attack. “So things like credit cards, social insurance numbers, or even just names, so that they can then start to pretend to be someone else, or sell that information to someone who can pretend to be someone else and they can extort from people or embarrass them.” No patient information compromised in AHS Facebook hackĪlberta Health Services released a statement on Twitter on Tuesday as the hack was occurring, stating that they were aware of the issue and were working with Facebook to shut down the account.Īs of the afternoon of Wednesday, August 24, Facebook had yet to deactivate the page or remove the DOTA2 video. “They’re going and pretending to be you, or they’re pretending to be your business, And then they’re doing things to either get account information or private information,” she said. RELATED: Calgary Police warning of new extortion scamĪdams said this even applies to individuals with less well used, less high-profile accounts than AHS and Aheer. “Ultimately what they’re trying to do is get access to either to scare people, or they’re looking for information about people to then use to either to sell, or to use it to get into more accounts.” She said that makes high-profile accounts more attractive to hackers and criminals attempting to do damage, or to gain access to personal or financial information. “You’ve got access to people, and you’ve got that publicity that a regular person doesn’t have,” said Adams about the accounts. Jeannie Adams, CEO of Calgary-based S01ve Cyber Solutions, said that it was likely that the Facebook accounts were hacked due to the high profile nature of both. Alberta Health Service’s EMS, and UCP leadership candidate Leela Aheer were among the high profile Facebook pages to have been hacked this week.Īnd while neither AHS or Aheer have been able to yet comment on what caused the breaches, a cyber security expert reminds Calgarians to be wary of online threats.
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