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Yet Another Data Breach Involving The PSNI

There's been another data breach involving police in the North. The PSNI's investigating the loss of...
Ben Finnegan
Ben Finnegan

12:47 PM - 18 Aug 2023



Yet Another Data Breach Involv...

News

Yet Another Data Breach Involving The PSNI

Ben Finnegan
Ben Finnegan

12:47 PM - 18 Aug 2023



There's been another data breach involving police in the North.

The PSNI's investigating the loss of an officer's laptop and notebook.

They are believed to have fallen from a moving vehicle on the M2 motorway, yesterday afternoon.

Police say the laptop was immediately deactivated and has been recovered however sections of the notebook remain outstanding.

Separately, another arrest has been made in the investigation into a previous PSNI data breach.

Details on 10,000 staff and officers was mistakenly leaked earlier this month, with some of the information put on a wall in west Belfast.

The PSNI has said it believes dissident republicans have access to the details.

Today, a man in his 50s was arrested in Derry under the Terrorism Act.



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