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I don't think there is any conflict of interest. The police are only concerned with the criminals who stole the password. Whether the university owes the employees their pay because of the lax security they implemented, is almost certainly a civil matter.

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At my university the Health and Safety people do nothing worse than hand out warnings, even if they come across serious safety issues in laboratories. It's almost as if they were at risk of losing their jobs if they imposed fines or shut down a lab altogether. Let the fun and games continue until someone burns!

If you believe that the police and the internal IT investigation aren't under pressure to find for the university I've got an Eiffel Tower to sell to you.

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