As expected, another T-Mobile UK employee has pleaded guilty to selling customer data in a scheme that was first revealed in 2009:
A former employee of T-Mobile UK has pleaded guilty to charges of stealing confidential information and selling it to a rival company.
Last November, it was revealed that investigators at the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) had been working with the mobile phone network after the firm suggested employees had sold details relating to customers’ mobile phone contracts, including their contract expiry dates.
An ICO spokesperson said: “Darren Hames has today pleaded guilty at Warrington Crown Court for two offences under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act. We are pleased with this outcome and now await sentencing which is due to take place in the New Year.”
Read more on Cellular-News. Previous coverage on databreaches.net linked from this earlier news story.