The personal details of over 100,000 French police officers have been leaked online just two weeks after an officer and his partner were murdered in their home by a jihadist.
Mutuelle Generale de la Police, an organisation which looks after the health and other insurance benefits for the French police force, has confirmed that the personal details of 112,000 serving and retired officers were uploaded to Google Drive by a disgruntled employee on 2 June.
The information included their postal addresses.
It said the files were password protected and there is no reason to suspect the data had been breached.
MGP told France TV Info that the attack was “a malicious act on the part of an employee”.
It comes just two weeks after a police commander and his partner were stabbed to death in their home near Paris by a man who pledged allegiance to Isis.
Larossi Abballa broke into the home of Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and Jessica Schneider because he believed he was acting on a call from Isis to “kill infidels”.
He shouted “Allah Akbar” as he broadcast the attack on live on Facebook - stabbing Mr Salvaing, 42, nine times in the stomach.
In the video he said he was responding to a call by Isis spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani to target civilians in Europe and the US during Ramadan.
Police shot the jihadi dead but found the body of Ms Schneider, 36, at the scene.
The couple’s three-year-old son escaped unharmed.
The murders are the first terrorist attack on French soil since November last year when 130 people were killed in a string of shootings and bombings across Paris.
Under the rules of the current state of emergency which was declared following the Paris attacks police officers can take their guns home with them.
This measure will be extended beyond the formal of the state of emergency on 26 July following Abballa’s attack, the BBC reports.
