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Hackers who stole former National Party leader Don Brash's emails will soon be caught, Act leader Rodney Hide says.
He said in Parliament yesterday, during a debate on the Government's spam-fighting bill, the emails used in Nicky Hager's book The Hollow Men showed "a degree of political espionage we have never seen in New Zealand before".
Hager has said the emails were given to him by disgruntled National Party members but Mr Hide said it was not possible for them to have been leaked.
"It's clear to me that what happened was covert surveillance of MPs, offices broken into, computers hacked from outside," Mr Hide said.
"Any one of us is as vulnerable as National. If Don Brash's computer can be penetrated, so can the Prime Minister's, so can any minister's."
National, which has introduced tighter security around its offices, asked the police in September to investigate the matter.
Mr Hide said he did not believe the Labour Party or any other party was responsible.
"But I'll tell you the noose is tightening around the perpetrators' necks," he said. "We are closing in on them and they will be revealed. There is a big story to tell here."
- NZPA
