A 50-year-old man in Northern Ireland has been charged with possessing paperwork or data 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) knowledge breach which noticed the names of 10,000 officers and workers printed on-line in response to a freedom of knowledge request.
Details launched included the surname and first preliminary of each worker, their rank or grade, the place they’re based mostly and the unit they work in.
Police had earlier mentioned 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 knowledge more likely to be of use to terrorists, and later launched on bail.
On Monday, PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne mentioned he believed the knowledge was within the palms of dissident republicans.
It adopted the posting of paperwork from the leak on a wall close to a Sinn Fein workplace in Belfast.
The PSNI has mentioned up to now week it suffered two different knowledge breaches regarding officers’ private particulars.
Missing sections of a PSNI pocket book that fell from a transferring automotive on the M2 in Belfast contained particulars of 42 officers and workers. The sections haven’t been recovered.
In a separate incident, a doc containing the names of officers and workers was stolen together with a police-issue laptop computer from an officer’s automotive on 6 July.
Source: information.sky.com”