PSNI information breach: Man, 50, arrested in Northern Ireland

A 50-year-old man in Northern Ireland has been charged with possessing paperwork or information more likely to be helpful to terrorists and possession of articles to be used in terrorism.

His arrest was in relation to final week’s Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) information breach which noticed the names of 10,000 officers and employees printed on-line in response to a freedom of data request.

Details launched included the surname and first preliminary of each worker, their rank or grade, the place they’re primarily based and the unit they work in.

Police had earlier stated they detained a 50-year-old beneath the Terrorism Act following a search within the Dungiven space on Friday.

Earlier this week, a 39-year-old man was detained following a search in Lurgan, Co Armagh, as a part of the identical investigation.

He was questioned on suspicion of assortment of data more likely to be of use to terrorists, and later launched on bail.

On Monday, PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne stated he believed the knowledge was within the fingers of dissident republicans.

It adopted the posting of paperwork from the leak on a wall near a Sinn Fein workplace in Belfast.

The PSNI has stated prior to now week it suffered two different information breaches referring to officers’ private particulars.

Missing sections of a PSNI pocket book that fell from a shifting automobile on the M2 in Belfast contained details of 42 officers and employees. The sections haven’t been recovered.

In a separate incident, a doc containing the names of officers and employees was stolen together with a police-issue laptop computer from an officer’s automobile on 6 July.