Asked if he might have received stolen information, Bridges said National had acted legally and appropriately. The National Party had never done anything like hacking, Bridges said. Bridges would not say how National obtained the Budget information that it released yesterday. He said Finance Minister Grant Robertson was smearing National and went so far as to say Robertson was "lying". "We take security of Treasury information, especially Budget information, extremely seriously," he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 28, 2019 19:51 UTC