Hacker took control of the London Police Department website, posting 'unacceptable' content.

A serious but equally interesting incident has just happened in the UK when the official website of the Metropolitan Police Department was suddenly visited by hackers and left uneasy.

Accordingly, the Metropolitan Police website has been hijacked for hours, causing almost all London Police Department online activities to be completely paralyzed. Not only that, the attackers also posted a series of strange messages in the bulletin board and posted on the Metropolitan Police social media accounts, in which there was a special line of content: 'FUCK THE POLICE'.

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Messages of insulting police

These 'offensive' messages were posted by attackers around 22:30, July 19, local time. Currently the Metropolitan Police security team has regained the rights

control your website, and confirm that this serious violation is conducted through third party software.

'On the night of Friday, July 19, a series of illegal and offensive messages appeared in the news section of our website, as well as on Twitter @metpoliceuk and Twitter accounts. in emails sent to subscribers. Currently the Metropolitan Police security team is rushing to complete the investigation process and gather relevant information to determine exactly what happened. We have now begun making changes to our access arrangements to MyNewsDesk, 'a London Police Department spokesman said in a press conference.

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Many people have captured the content of hackers posting

In fact, the London Police Department's communications team does not directly operate (technically) the Metropolitan Police website, but instead hires an online website administration service provider named MyNewsDesk provides technical support as well as manages some other content posted on this website. 'When a news or message is published via MyNewsDesk, it will appear on the London Police Department website and their Twitter account, and create an email containing the message / news for those who have posted it. Signed for online news updates, 'the police agency representative explained.

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Countless insult messages have been posted

London police of course quickly regained control of their website and social media accounts, but many people also quickly took pictures of these 'bad jokes'.

In addition to insulting messages and disparaging police, the hacker group behind the attack also posted some references to rapper Digga D and a celebrity on the social network with the nickname Keemstar, who is currently running a YouTube channel called DramaAlert. It is unclear how the hacker group is related to these two people.

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Metropolitan Police's Twitter home page after being hacked

The entire content of the violation was quickly removed from the Metropolitan Police account, but there is still a stored version of the Digga D related message that has been indexed on Google Search, and can be found with the following results:

The message regarding Digga D has been indexed on Google Search

The attack did not leave much damage to the London Police Department, but the impact it caused caused the agency's reputation to be severely affected. Let's wait and see what name is behind this incident.