Security shortcomings by Dutch press agency GPD exposed the private telephone numbers of politicians and other public figures to prying eyes until earlier this week. Former telephone numbers of controversial anti-immigration MP Geert Wilders and an old (now disconnected) mobile, formerly belonging to prime minister Jan Peter …

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Friday 14th August 2009 13:34 GMT Anonymous Coward

GPD?

Now I am dutch but I never heard of this GPD. It seems that GPD is just a tiny player in the dutch news field.

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