Major data breach at Northern Ireland police hits thousands of officers and staff

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Police Service of Nothern Ireland involved in major data breach of officers and civilian staff

It involves names of officers and civilian workers where they are based, and their roles – includingThe data breach was a result of a Freedom of Information request that mistakenly revealed the details.reported that the material, featuring 345,000 pieces of data, was wrongly published on the internet.

He added: “We operate in an environment at the moment where there’s a severe threat to our colleagues from Northern Ireland-related terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening.” “What I would say is that although the error was our own, once that information was out there if anybody did have access to it, I would ask them to delete it straight away.”

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