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Charges filed against Minnesota DNR worker in license data breach

Posted on February 7, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Mike Durkin reports that federal charges have now been filed against John Hunt, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources employee accused of improperly accessing 5,000 residents’ information from the state driver’s license database:

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Hunt committed a federal crime during off-duty hours. Hunt is accused of illegally viewing the records of 5,000 people roughly 12,000 times between January 2008 and October 2012.

Investigators said the majority of files Hunt accessed belong to women in the public eye: local celebrities, television news personalities, politicians and professional athletes.

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