The breach puts 100,000 members of the force “at serious risk,” an affected official has told the paper
The data of more than 100,000 UK police officers and staff has appeared on the dark web after the hackers breached a key law enforcement database, the Times has reported.
The leak came just days after the cybercriminals published over half a million pieces of sensitive information from the British Education Ministry.
The perpetrators were able to gain access to the Police National Legal Database (PNLD), which is used by members of law enforcement in England and Wales, the Times said in an article on Sunday.
Police sources told the paper that some 114,000 PNLD subscribers, mostly officers, had their names and contact details uploaded online.
The hackers also exposed data from 2,615 Crown Prosecution Service employees, 617 Home Office personnel, 588 National Crime Agency staff and 402 workers of the British Defense Ministry, they added.
E-mail addresses of some 21,000 members of the public, who visited Ask the Police website, were released as part of the leak as well, according to the article.
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