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LAPD Data Breach Exposes Personal Info of Roughly 2.5K Officers

The Los Angeles Police Department has suffered a data breach that has reportedly exposed the names, email addresses, passwords, and birth dates for police officers and applicants. According to local media reports, the personal information for 2,500 LAPD officers and approximately 17,500 police officer applicants were exposed. The labor union for the LAPD (LAPD) stated on their Facebook page that this is a “serious security issue”” and that they expect safeguards to be put in place so that this type of breach does not happen again in the future.”

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lapd-data-breach-exposes-personal-info-of-roughly-25k-officers/

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