Names and addresses of 25,000 police officers published by Anonymous cell

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Police officers are once again finding their names, dates of birth and home addresses have been published on the web. Meanwhile, over half a million customers of a health insurance company have their personal data put at risk.

It's a bad week for data security in Austria.

Almost 25,000 Austrian police officers are the latest to have their personal information exposed by the actions of Anonymous activists.

What is a cause for concern, of course, is that there is clearly the potential for officers - and indeed their families - to be targeted by vengeful criminals when data like this enters the public domain.

A group calling itself AnonAustria published a link to the data via its Twitter account earlier this week.

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