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Hackers Use Police Twitter Account To Say “F**k the Police”

Don’t you just love it when hackers waltz through the government’s cyber security like it’s not even there?

Published

July 23, 2019

Thereby proving that the Metropolitan Police have cyber security just about as good as wet toilet paper, their Twitter account was hacked on the 19th of July.

These are just a few of the hilarious things the “police” said:

Images via Twitter

The Internet proceeded to mock them relentlessly. And I mean relentlessly.

Image via Reddit

I broke down at "what u gonna do, phone the police?" 🤣
— Abel Undercity (@AbelUndercity) July 20, 2019

Image via Reddit

In the aftermath of the attack, the Metropolitan Police deleted the tweets. Subsequently, they assured members of the public that despite just getting their account jacked by somebody who speaks like a fourteen year old, everything is fine. This is fine.

Due to an incident on 19th July, as a precaution we decided to suspend using this account. The issue has now been rectified.

We'd like to reassure you that there is no evidence of a hack of the Met's IT network. We continue to work with @NCSC to better understand this incident. pic.twitter.com/K0M3KdBjgN
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) July 22, 2019

Despite their best efforts, it doesn’t look like anybody’s going to let them live this down. Just look at the comments on this very same post:

Want to read more stories about governments and their complete and utter shite cyber security, secure in the knowledge that they have pretty much every piece of information about you in their system? Here you go.

And you should probably be using a VPN, if you’re not doing it already. No, really.

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Written ByDana Liew Qi-E

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