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Northumbria Police Authority woke up to a host of security problems after the August bank holiday weekend. Not only was the UK police regulation authority defaced by a foul-mouthed Tunisian hacker, who made reference to the Anonymous hacking collective, but the law-enforcement authority was placed in the more serious position …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Trollface

    Hey Sarge...

    We seem to have won the Nigerian/Tunisian Sweepstakes!

  2. Mark McNeill
    Linux

    Lorem ipsum

    And this story turned up in my newsfeed with an ad for Windows Server attached. Excellent targeted advertising!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Trollface

    Hmmm

    It seems our "Security Services" are anything but...

  4. some-reg-reader
    Stop

    Not a police website?

    Either northumbriapoliceauthority.org.uk is not an official police website, or someone has been a little "dishonest" in their registrant details:

    Registrant type:

    UK Individual

    Registrant's address:

    The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their

    address omitted from the WHOIS service.

    1. Captain Scarlet Silver badge

      hmm

      Should be a sub domain on police.gov.uk surely?

      Edit: I'm wrong its http://www.northumbria.police.uk/

  5. Pete 8
    Childcatcher

    Low-level crooks

    seem to have a higher level permissions than the spokeperson for NPA.

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