Hacker steals and publishes police force data

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A hacker claims to have hacked into phone numbers, login details and passwords of a number of police officers in the Hertfordshire Safer Neighbourhoods team, and has posted what he says are details from the database online.

It's another worrying weakness in a system that ought to be bullet-proof, but is this anything for us to worry about?

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