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by armored 5472 days ago
Based on the type of documents released and the fact that they only released a few email accounts & passwords you can tell that this was not a very sophisticated attack. Probably a brute force attack against the mail server, or passwords gleaned from individual officers rooted home computers.
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That only makes it worse; most organization would succumb to a sophisticated attack, but a police dept. should be resistant against simple attacks at least.