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Police website shut amid hacker fears

Strathclyde Police was forced to close down its website last night amid fears it had come under attack from Chinese hackers.

The site went down soon after 6pm as the force’s IT team assessed the threat, which was detected after a number of weblinks appeared that diverted users to a Chinese site with a history of distributing viruses.