[From article]
Darren Hames, a former area manager for T-Mobile, [. . .] a former colleague, David Turley [. . .] sold the information on to a company that targeted customers to switch to a rival operator.
[. . .]
names, addresses and phone numbers of 65,000 customers of an online bingo site were sold to third-party organisations by Marc Ben-Ezra, a gambling industry worker.
made around £25,000 from
selling personal details on an “industrial scale”, according to the
Information Commissioner.
[. . .]
Sarah Matthew, a Metropolitan Police sergeant who was dismissed after being convicted of illegally accessing information in the force’s database.
[. . .]
Jason Robinson, 41, who was suspended from his job as a detective sergeant at Cumbria Police last year.
[. . .]
“Serious, highly sensitive information is being abused by people in positions of trust and they walk away with a punishment equivalent to a slightly expensive parking ticket.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10278345/Medical-files-to-phones-personal-details-stolen-on-industrial-scale.html
Medical files to phones, personal details stolen on industrial scale
The vulnerability of personal data handed over to public bodies and private companies is exposed in an investigation revealing how hundreds of thousands of people have had their details stolen.
By Edward Malnick
9:30PM BST 31 Aug 2013
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