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By Jack Farrell and Lisa Johnson, The Canadian Press
Provincial Politics

Alberta elections officials say more than 550 people accessed renegade voter database

May 7, 2026 | 3:10 PM

A third investigation is now underway into a massive privacy breach involving a separatist group and the personal information of nearly three million Albertans.

Last week, R-C-M-P and the province’s elections agency announced their own probes into an online database of the province’s voter list published by a group called the Centurion Project.

Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Diane McLeod’s office now says she is also looking into whether the group’s actions violate the privacy law that protects personal information.

It also comes as the scope of the breach comes into sharper focus.

Elections Alberta says it believes 23 people were given full copies of the list while another 545 accessed it through the database.

The database was traced back to an official voter list Elections Alberta had legally distributed to a provincial political party, and was taken down last week following a court order.

The agency says cease-and-desist letters have been issued to people the Centurion Project says accessed the list.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 7, 2026.

by Jack Farrell and Lisa Johnson, The Canadian Press