In Northern Ireland, a militant group claims to have the personal details of some police officers. As reported, a disturbance became known to the police on Tuesday evening: a private individual accidentally received a list of the surnames, locations and fields of employment of all nearly 10,000 employees.
According to information from the BBC, the data should also have been temporarily available on a website. Several current and former employees also had insight, it said. Violent proponents of reunification with Ireland have now claimed to have police records. However, this information has not yet been confirmed.
“We are aware that public trust is now at stake,” said Police Commissioner Simon Byrne. It is an “unprecedented crisis” with potentially “huge claims”. However, in some cases, civil servants will have to give up their usual job. Byrne apologized “without reservation” for this, but rejected calls for his own resignation.
Data accidentally released by the Secret Service
Among the published data would be that of the British secret service MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5). 25 years after a peace deal, security forces in rural Britain are still subject to attacks. During a decades-long civil war, 302 security forces were killed. This raged between predominantly Catholic supporters of reunification with neighboring Ireland and Protestant supporters of unity with Britain.
Source: Krone
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