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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:
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The Internet proceeded to mock them relentlessly. And I mean relentlessly.
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I broke down at "what u gonna do, phone the police?" 🤣
— Abel Undercity (@AbelUndercity) July 20, 2019
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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.
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.