London’s Metropolitan Police apologised Saturday after its Twitter, emails and news pages were targeted by hackers and began pumping out a series of bizarre messages.
After a series of messages late Friday that read simply”test” or seemingly random letters, the police sites began using foullanguage with anti-police sentiment and calling for a jailed rapper to bereleased. “Free Digga D,” said one such message. The Met Police’sTwitter account has 1.22 million followers. Scotland Yard police headquarterssaid its internal IT infrastructure had not been hacked, explaining the issuewas limited to its press office’s online provider, MyNewsDesk, which put newsreleases online to the public. “Unauthorised messages appeared on the newssection of our website,” it said, as well as on its Twitter feed andemails. Agencies