http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/28/fraternal-order-of-police-hacked-fbi-investigation-data-servers
By Jon Swaine and George Joseph in New York
The Guardian
28 January 2016
Private files belonging to America’s biggest police union, including the
names and addresses of officers, forum posts critical of Barack Obama, and
controversial contracts made with city authorities, were posted online
Thursday after a hacker breached its website.
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which says it represents about
330,000 law enforcement officers across the US, said the FBI was
investigating after 2.5GB of data taken from its servers was dumped online
and swiftly shared on social media. The union’s national site, fop.net,
remained offline on Thursday evening.
“We have contacted the office of the assistant attorney general in charge
of cyber crime, and officials from FBI field offices have already made
contact with our staff,” Chuck Canterbury, the FOP’s national president,
said in an interview.
The FBI did not respond to a request to confirm that it was investigating.
Canterbury said he was confident that no sensitive personal information or
financial details of their members had been obtained. “Some names and
addresses were taken,” he said. “It concerns us. We’re taking steps to try
to notify our members but that is going to take some time.”
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