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Two former employees of UK mobile operator T-Mobile who stole and sold customer data from the company in 2008 have been successfully prosecuted and ordered to pay a total of £73,700 in fines or face prison.
David Turley and Darren Hames pleaded guilty to the criminal offence of unlawfully obtaining and disclosing personal data under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Their offences were uncovered after T-Mobile conducted a joint investigation with the ICO into how names, addresses, telephone numbers and customer contract end-dates were being unlawfully passed on to third parties.
