Victorian anti-corruption commission finds firefighters hacked emails to further union interests

A Metropolitan Fire Brigade truck in 2007. An anti-corruption commission has found MFB members accessed emails and shared confidential information with the firefighter’s union without permission. Photograph: Mark Dadswell/Getty Images

Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog has found staff members at the state’s Metropolitan Fire Brigade hacked emails of executives and were “motivated to misuse” the information they uncovered “to further the interests” of the firefighters union and its state secretary, Peter Marshall.

The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (Ibac) tabled its investigation into the leaking of information at the MFB – dubbed Operation Turton – on Wednesday.