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Met Police website hacked, tweets ‘FUCK THE POLICE’

20/07/2019

It appears hackers briefly took over UK Metropolitan Police’s website, posting a series of bizarre messages on its press section and social media accounts, including one which read “Fuck the police.” The messages were sent around 22:30UTC on July 2019. The Met Police team has since confirmed the breach occurred...
It appears hackers briefly took over UK Metropolitan Police’s website, posting a series of bizarre on its press and social media accounts, including one which read “Fuck the police.” The were sent around 22:30UTC on July 2019. The Met Police team has since confirmed the breach occurred via third-party software. “Last night, Friday 19 July, unauthorised appeared on the news of our website as well as on the @metpoliceuk Twitter feed and in emails sent to subscribers,” it said in a statement. “While we are still working to establish exactly what happened, we have begun… This story continues at The Next Web
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