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16 September 2019CopyrightSarah Morgan

PIPCU arrests hacker accused of stealing unreleased songs

The City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has arrested a suspected hacker who allegedly stole unreleased songs from world-famous recording artists.

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