Matthew Finnegan reports: A Barclays Bank employee has received a fine of £3,360 for illegally accessing customer data. Jennifer Addo, 27, was prosecuted under section 55 of the Data Protection Act for 23 offences, including passing on details of a customer’s children. The bank was initially alerted when the customer contacted the bank to report…
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Alabama state employee sentenced for stealing info from state database for tax refund fraud scheme (updated)
An update to a case reported previously on this blog: Lea Tice Phillips, who had been employed by an unnamed Alabama state agency, was sentenced to 94 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $567,631 for her role in a tax refund fraud scheme. Phillips had pleaded guilty in May. Aha. Finally we know…
State Farm call center worker misused customers’ credit card information
Two days after a State Farm auto insurance customer made a payment on their insurance policy over the phone, the customer called State Farm back to report that their credit card information had been misused. State Farm investigated, and one month later, on September 4, the insurer notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that they…
MN: Judge tosses data breach suit against state
Eric Roper reports: A federal judge has dismissed a series of class action claims against the state, relating to a former Department of Natural Resources employee who allegedly snooped into thousands of drivers license records. Lawsuits against the employee are not impacted by the dismissal. Nor, reports Roper, are the more than 20 lawsuits that have been…
Belfast civil servant offered to sell secret database info to newspaper
Meet the civil servant who attempted to sell Sunday Life information from a top-secret government database — including the personal details of a local celebrity. The secrets-for-cash offer was made by Martin Cunningham — an administrative assistant based at a Belfast based Jobs and Benefits Office. The 26-year-old from Downpatrick said he could snoop the…
UK: Former Bognor police officer fined for breaching Data Protection Act
The Bognor Regis Observer reports a former police office officer assigned to the Bognor Regis Police Station has been convicted of illegally accessing Sussex Police computers to get information on acquaintances. Thomas Grant pleaded guilty to breaching the Data Protection Act and was fined £800.