30,000 London gun owners hit by Met Police 'data breach'

Who gave marketing agency access to super-sensitive address database?

By Gareth Corfield

London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm’s advertising campaign.

The first any of the affected people knew about the blunder was when the leaflet (pictured below) landed on their doormats in Tuesday’s post.

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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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