NYPD Officer Sentenced to Prison For Misuse of Computer Data

[From article]
Vargas admit ted that from April 2010 to May 2012, he paid a Los Angeles company specializing in email hacking to supply him with personal log-in credentials to help spy on his ex-lover.
The data included information on at least 20 of his NYPD colleagues, including his former girlfriend.
He admitted using the information to access the account of at least one person . Vargas also dug up personal information on two cops using the FBI’s National Crime Information Center, and accessed the phone records of another victim, authorities said.
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Vargas was disciplined two years ago for allegedly stalking his ex, sources said. He was penalized five vacation days and was transferred from the 40th to the 44th Precinct, both in The Bronx.
The woman, who was not identified, complained at the time that she was being stalked, and said that Vargas had sent her harassing texts and called her names, the sources said.

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Ex-cop will go to prison for hacking NYPD over love triangle
By Kirstan Conley and Rich Calder
New York Post
June 2, 2014 | 2:19pm