The 50-year-old man has been arrested under the Terrorism Act in connection with the accidental leak.
A second person has been arrested by detectives investigatingThe data was accidentally shared earlier in August and included the surname and initials of 10,000 PSNI employees.A 39-year-old man who was arrested on Tuesday has been released on bail.Dt Ch Insp Andy Hill said the PSNI was working to establish who possessed information related to the data breach.
The first breach happened when data was made public in error by police responding to a routine freedom of information request. The surname and initials of every employee, their rank or grade, where they are based and the unit they work in, including sensitive areas such as surveillance and intelligence, were included.
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