The Hague, 30 Nov (EFE).- At least 700 pages on multiple investigations counter-terrorism of the European Police Office (Europol) were accessible to the public by mistake, as revealed today, the Dutch television “Zembla”, which is in the possession of those documents.
The data, mostly from the period between 2006 and 2008, containing information on 54 european research, including that relating to the attacks on trains in Madrid in 2004.
The European Police Office acknowledged the incident and accused a Dutch police, former officer of Europol, to step accidentally on the internet this information.
The former employee, now national police of the netherlands, violated the confidentiality clause and saved the files on a disk private to take them home.
it Is unknown the reasons that led to that agent to keep these documents.
“It’s a very, very serious incident,” said the deputy director of this agency, Wil van Gemert, who reported that there is already an official investigation in progress.
it Is more than 700 pages of files to police confidential information about terrorism, affecting at least eight european countries, according to the middle Dutch.
The documents contain multiple analyses of terrorist groups and hundreds of names and phone numbers of people linked to terrorism, and also have information about several attacks thwarted by planes with liquid explosives.
“Zembla” explained that he found the documents on a backup disk that had been connected to an insecure network, known as iOmega.
Europol, based in The Hague, said he is conducting the research necessary both to clarify what happened as to measure the consequences of this leakage of information.
The European Police assured that this incident will not affect the investigations that are currently underway, but do not rule out that, in addition to “Zembla”, there is someone more in possession of the files.
in order To not endanger the investigations of terrorism today, the tv channel has pledged to reveal only part of the content of the documents, and will not mention the names of the suspects. EFE
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