Web worker stole 100,000 users' details (fwd)

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

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From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003412.html
Aug 22, 2007

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. Her ex-employer is 
chasing her through the High Court for more than £300,000 in damages, 
after he she stole a laptop loaded with the customer data.

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