Mark Ballard reports: Staff working for Her Majesty’s Courts Service have breached security on the government database that stores personal data about everyone in the UK. Also, local authorities sacked 26 employees last year for snooping on personal data stored on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System (CIS), which, with 90…
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Operation Motorman: the full story revealed
The Guardian has an expose of network that managed to obtain confidential data on numerous individuals. They report: From his cramped office at the back of his family home on a quiet street on the Hampshire coast, Steve Whittamore was for years the link between news organisations and a network of sources who could penetrate…