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London's Metropolitan Police is investigating the possibility that the names, photographs, ranks and service titles of 47,000 police officers may have been stolen as a result of a cyber-attack on a staff card maker.
According to a report by "The Sun" newspaper, unknown persons have hacked the company that produces the staff cards of the Metropolitan Police of London.
The Metropolitan Police and the National Crime Agency were alerted to the serious possibility that the names, photographs and ranks of 47,000 police officers may have fallen into the hands of terrorist organizations or gangs.
Scotland Yard, for its part, clarified that investigators are working with the company to examine whether there was a security gap.
According to a representative of the Metropolitan Police, it is not known when the cyber attack occurred nor the number of employees affected by it. However, he added that the company did not have access to employees' personal data, such as home addresses, phone numbers or financial information.
For the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents more than 30,000 officers, this security gap will cause "tremendous concern and anger" among officers.
"This is an extraordinary breach of security that should never have happened," said Rick Pryor, vice president of the Federation.
The announcement comes weeks after Northern Ireland's police force admitted it had wrongly published details of almost all its staff, around 10,000 officers and other personnel, including their surname and initials, their rank or even the unit they were in. they work.
Norfolk and Suffolk Police later admitted to wrongly releasing information on more than 1,200 people, including victims and witnesses to crimes.
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