*LONDON – London’s Metropolitan Police apologised Saturday after itsTwitter, emails and news pages were targeted by hackers and began pumpingout a series of bizarre messages.*
After a series of messages late Friday that read simply “test” or seeminglyrandom letters, the police sites began using foul language with anti-policesentiment and calling for a jailed rapper to be released, the *Guardianlink* reported.
“Free Digga D,” said one such message.
The Met Police’s Twitter account has 1.22 million followers.
Scotland Yard police headquarters said its internal IT infrastructure hadnot been hacked, explaining the issue was limited to its press office’sonline provider, MyNewsDesk, which put news releases online to the public.
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“Unauthorised messages appeared on the news section of our website,” itsaid, as well as on its Twitter feed and emails.
“We apologise to our subscribers and followers for the messages they havereceived.
