LAPD files hacked

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Personal information of LAPD command staff, including home addresses, phone numbers and children's names, were posted online this week -- apparently by hackers retaliating for the police raid on Occupy L.A., officials said Wednesday. CJ Lin in the Daily News.

Police were investigating the posting, which also included mortgage information, political campaign contributions and names of family members of about two dozen high-ranking Los Angeles Police Department officials.

The information was posted on a third-party website on Monday by hacker group CabinCr3w in a move known as "doxing," Internet slang for publishing personal information online.


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