A former LV= employee offered an ex-colleague £3,000 a month to send him the details of customers involved in road accidents.
David Lewis, of Durlston Road in Swanage, used messaging service Whatsapp to contact Jacqueline Carter after he left the Poole-based business in 2014.
However, Ms Carter warned Lewis that she wasn’t a “******* idiot” after he asked her for “just [the] name and number” of 10 customers each month.
Lewis, 35, appeared at Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where he admitted attempting to obtain or disclose personal data or information on November 11 2014.
Read more on Bournemouth Echo.
The ICO’s office merely had this to say:
Former LV employee David Barlow Lewis has been prosecuted at Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court for attempting to commit a section 55 Data Protection Act offence, by attempting to obtain personal data without the data controller’s consent. Mr Lewis pleaded guilty to trying to get an existing LV employee to sell him customer data and he was fined £300, ordered to pay £614.40 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.