Hackers prank Canada's Harper with a hash brown

THE ENTERTAINERS AT YOUR EXPENSE, the hackers of Lulzsec have wreaked their own brand of havoc on the Canadian Conservative Party.

Lulzraft, a group that appears to be associated with the notorious group Lulzsec, snuck onto the web site of the Conservative Party of Canada and added a worse than innocuous press release that declared the party leader and prime minister of Canada had inhaled a bit too much potato with his early morning coffee.

"Prime Minister Rushed to Hospital After Breakfast Incident," declared the headline that was plastered firmly across the front page.

Below this attention grabbing announcement came the details, which added that prime minister Stephen Harper was in a Toronto Hospital having a hash brown removed from his throat. "He was eating breakfast with his kids when a piece of hash-brown lodged in his throat, blocking air from reaching his lungs," it explained.

The announcement caused fellow politician Chris Alexander - deep breath, the MP for Ajax-Pickering. parliamentary secretary to the minister of national defence. politics and public service for the common good - to tweet his concerns, "Prime Minister Rushed to Hospital After Breakfast Incident," to his shame.

He has since removed the tweet and followed up with a statement that his account was hacked, and perhaps another web site too.

"My Twitter account was hacked this morning: previous tweet absolutely false. Apologies to all," he wrote, and then, "Correction: looks like another site was hacked -- to which mine was linked. Checking further".

Lulzraft took credit for the hack on its Twitter feed when it declared things like, "Any bets on how long until anyone notices my 'special article'?", "So everyone like our little Harper rumour? To clarify: we never said he was dead, just that he was rushed to hospital," and "The funny thing is, we had more trouble using the conservative party CMS then we did hacking the site...literally!" µ