Wednesday, August 22, 2007

UK: C&W Employee Stole 100,000 Users' Details

Via Contractor UK.

A Cable & Wireless employee was yesterday identified to Contractor UK as having stolen the personal details of 100,000 broadband customers who used the popular Bulldog service.

Having teamed up with Bulldog’s owner, Pipex, C&W said it is pursuing the worker with an injunction to stop “any further use” of the data, which includes users’ credit card details.

But in a statement, C&W said there is currently “no evidence” that the worker, who has now been sacked by the company, has used any of the credit card numbers for identity fraud.

The employee has been identified as Seemab Zafar, The Mail on Sunday reported. Her ex-employer is chasing her through the High Court for more than £300,000 in damages, after she stole a laptop loaded with the customer data.

More here.

(Props, Pogo Was Right.)

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