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Of shock, dismay and anger. i mean, a lot of our officers go to extraordinary lengths to protect their identities and to protect the roles that they perform for the psni. earlier this year, the terrorism threat level in northern ireland was raised after the attempted murder of a senior detective. john caldwell was shot at a sports complex after a youth football coaching session. its believed he was attacked by the new ira, a dissident republican paramilitary group, opposed to the peace process. ...

Simon Byrne is set to appear before a meeting of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in Belfast on Thursday.

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Testing. that kind of thing is to - see if you notice and whether or not it rings alarm bells. lets take a little bit and then see if we take bigger as we go. i think there is an element of that here but obviously we are talking about two different things. thats the criminal side of things, taking money from you in a fraudulent way, slowly and carefully. and then you have the cyber espionage, which is what we think this attack was. and cyber espionage, which is what we think this attack was.— ...

Rank and file officers labelled it a breach of monumental proportions. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page has the latest. police officers everywhere face risks when doing theirjobs. but, in this part of the uk, the dangers are particularly stark, given the terrorism threat is a daily reality. the police service of northern ireland is now dealing with whats thought to be the most serious data breach in its history. so what was within that data was the surname, the initial, the rank or grade, th...

Simon Byrne is set to appear before a meeting of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in Belfast on Thursday

Happened in any police. across the uk it would have been less than ideal. when you are a police officer in northern ireland, you need with particular security concerns. despite the end of the troubles of us remain under threat by paramilitaries, particularly by dissident republicans. a few months ago high ranking detectivejohn caldwell was shot and seriously injured when he was helping out at a childs football coaching session filter that will be fresh in the minds of police officers as they try...

Police officers in Northern Ireland are sounding alarms over their personal safety after a data breach revealed the surnames and locations where they serve for

The PSNI said in a statement that they are treating the issue ‘extremely seriously.

Appropriately, and not to be disclosing things like this into the public domain. the problem came about after a routine request for data under freedom of information laws. the response should have focused on the number of staff working at different grades, but the police also released a spreadsheet by mistake. it contains the surname, initials, rank and work department of every employee. the data was published on this website for around two hours yesterday afternoon. i do apologise to officers. ...