Northern Ireland police afraid after major data breach

Decades of vigilance have been undone by what the Police Service of Northern Ireland is calling simply ‘human error’.

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An error which meant the identities of thousands of its officers were posted on the force’s own website, and stayed up for nearly three hours.

The data was mistakenly published during a freedom information request about workforce numbers. But it’s left much of that workforce feeling angry and afraid, in a place where joining the police already carries significant risk
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