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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday and Matthew Weaver

BIZARRE: Greater manchester police officers data hacked in cyber attack - What They Never Told You

Police officer wearing Greater Manchester police uniform
GMP said its investigators had established that data from police badges including names, ranks, photos and serial numbers ‘may have been accessed’. Photograph: Alamy

The personal details of tens of thousands of public sector workers could have been breached in a cyber-attack that has hit two of Britain’s biggest police forces, an expert has said.

More than 12,500 Greater Manchester police (GMP) officers and staff were put on alert on Thursday that their private data had been compromised in a hack that also hit the Metropolitan police last month.

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