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UK: Update: Man Held Over Morrisons Payroll Data Breach

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Dissent

Sky News reports a development in the Morrisons data breach affecting up to 100,000 employees:

An employee of supermarket chain Morrisons has been arrested by police investigating the theft of payroll data of up to 100,000 employees.

West Yorkshire Police said a man was arrested on Monday on suspicion of making or supplying an article for use in fraud.

Read more on Yahoo! UK.

I hope we eventually discover what the motivation was behind this incident.


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2 thoughts on “UK: Update: Man Held Over Morrisons Payroll Data Breach”

  1. dave says:
    March 18, 2014 at 7:37 am

    The only motivation was to line his pockets. What’s the going rate for 100,000 peoples id.

    1. Dissent says:
      March 18, 2014 at 8:15 am

      If you want to monetize, you don’t dump the data publicly or send it to the media, though…

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