• Australian Federal Police accidentally live streamed a secret meeting where they were planning the arrest of a suspected North Korean agent.
  • The live stream occurred on Periscope two days before the operation occurred.
  • A Sydney man was subsequently arrested and being charged under weapons of mass destruction laws.

The Australian Federal Police accidentally live streamed a secret meeting over plans to arrest an alleged North Korean agent on Twitter’s Periscope platform just days before the operation took place.

The sting involved the arrest of a 59-year-old Sydney man on Sunday and the video could have tipped off the suspect to his impending arrest.

 

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