Police are continuing to investigate the impact of a data leak last week in which hackers obtained the “work-related contact data of all police officers”.
The Dutch national police force employs some 62,000 officers. According to an email sent to staff at the weekend, police chief Janny Knol an “office account” was hacked revealing names, email addresses and phone numbers. How the hackers gained access is still unclear. It is possible that one of the officers fell for a phishing scam, director of security firm ESET Dave Maasland told the NRC. But it could be a “clever hacker who may or may not be in the Netherlands” or even “a foreign government”, he told the paper.
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Source: DutchNews
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