Canary Trap Exposes Alberta Election Database Leak

Elections Alberta used a canary trap to identify the source of a leaked electoral database. The Centurion Project, a separatist group, had published an online voter lookup tool using data from the province's electoral list. The list was legitimately released to the Republican Party of Alberta, but Elections Alberta had salted that copy with fake entries. When those bogus entries appeared in Centurion's tool, officials traced the leak to the Republican Party. The court ordered Centurion to shut down the site, and both groups pledged to comply with the law. The exact method of data transfer remains unclear.