Two males have been arrested beneath the Terrorism Act by officers investigating the breach of information from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
The suspects are aged 21 and 22 and have been held following a “search in the Portadown area on Saturday”, the PSNI mentioned on X, previously often called Twitter.
It added: “The arrests are part of our investigation into criminality linked to the freedom of information data breach.”
Sky’s senior Ireland correspondent, David Blevins, mentioned the arrests have been “not related to the data breach itself”.
He added: “The Northern Ireland Policing Board has ordered an unbiased evaluation of how the names of 10,000 officers and employees have been mistakenly launched.
“But detectives are also investigating how the information has been distributed and have made a number of similar arrests in the last three weeks.”
The knowledge was leaked when the PSNI revealed the data in response to a Freedom of Information request.
On Friday, it emerged that PSNI officers have been investigating an “attempt to intimidate” officers after a poster claiming to disclose their particulars was put up close to a bus cease.
The pressure has since confirmed the poster was pretend and contained incorrect particulars.
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A girl who mentioned her identify was on the poster says she is “outraged”.
In a press release launched via her solicitor, the unnamed girl mentioned she is just not a police officer.
In assertion launched via a solicitor, she mentioned: “My personal information was written on the poster that was put up in Dungiven that linked myself, my partner and two other named individuals to the PSNI.
“I reside in a small rural village and everybody within the space who has seen the poster thinks that it’s referring to me, though everybody would know that I’m not a police officer.
“I can categorically clarify that I am not a serving police officer and I have never been employed by the police in any capacity.
“This is simply plain fallacious and I’m outraged that I’ve now doubtlessly been made a goal for an imminent assault on my life.”
She also said she was “deeply upset and anxious” and claimed the PSNI “refused my request to situation a press release confirming that I’m not a police officer”.
A PSNI spokesperson said they could “verify that the individual elevating these considerations has no present or historic hyperlinks to the police service”.
Detective Chief Inspector Avine Kelly said: “We proceed to work towards establishing those that possess info referring to final week’s knowledge breach, and can take motion to make sure that any criminality recognized is handled robustly to maintain communities, and our officers and employees who serve them, secure.”
Source: information.sky.com”