How is a fucking URL all you need to access confidential evidence on a police server. Lets bruteforce some URLs i guess?
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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There was a piece a while ago of a guy that went to expired domains in Belgium, happened to buy an old domain from the police, and all of a sudden, started to have emails from the police with a mail server. Crazy how no one checked the domain.
Edit: found the URL here. And there was other institutions hit as well, not just police
Yeah i saw that back then, it happened multiple time with different organizations iirc.
Ask Adrian Lamo. He "hacked" a few sites just by clicking links
Or Aaron Swartz...
In germany its also catastrophic. I remember three stories off the top of my head where security researchers were raided or sued after properly reporting massive security issues in company software.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
That being said, wtf does "relinquishing digital files" even mean? They do know they still have the "originals" and there is no way to prove how many copies he made, right?
I mean the fact that they dont have any access controls on their servers should tell you how technically competent those cops are.
That is not a good idea. Demanding ransom from the police never works out. Also, this gives quite a bad vibe to the dutch police as well (or this precinct in particular), since someone cannot verify where to send the files first.
Idiot vs Imbeciles.
Police create conditions leading to arrest
ACAB all the way. but in this case, all he had to do is say "Okie Dokie", it's impossible to prove he didn't make copies or backups, or wether he deleted them or not.
Asking for randsom money from police is pretty stupid way to admit non compliance.
that being said, the police should get in trouble for leaking confidential information.
That's a little unfair. If I leave my door open while I'm gone and someone comes in and makes copies of my personal documents I guess that's somewhat my fault, but they did something they knew they shouldn't have. The guy is basically extorting the police and asking for taxpayer money to delete information he was informed he should not have. It seems like he was notified and given time to comply but chose to demand money. I don't know the exact content of the files, but there's a lot of potential harm that can come from certain documents being public. I'm not pro police, but the guy seems to be clearly in the wrong here.