Lady Gaga website hacked and fans' details stolen

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By Tom Bryant
Daily Mirror
16/07/2011

LADY Gaga has called in police after thousands of her fans' personal 
details were stolen from her website.

Her record label Univeral acted after the site was hacked into by US cyber 
attackers SwagSec.

A source said: "She's upset and hopes police get to the bottom of how this 
was allowed to happen."

The group struck on June 27 but did not make the information, which 
included names and email addresses, public until this week.

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