A Morrisons employee has been arrested in connection with the theft and publication of personal details of thousands of the supermarkets staff last week. West Yorkshire police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of making or supplying an article for the use of fraud. He is currently being held in custody. Those convicted of such an offence, under section 7 of the Fraud Act 2006, can face up to 10 years in prison in the most serious cases. The arrest comes after details of Morrisons employees salaries, bank account details and addresses were published on a website on Thursday just as the supermarket revealed a massive profits warning. A disc of the data, which has details of staff from director level to the shop floor, was also sent anonymously to a local paper in Yorkshire, the Telegraph & Argus, by a concerned Morrisons shopper. It is believed that the man arrested had access to the leaked data in the course of his work. Morrisons said it was continuing to work with police and had advised staff on measures it was taking to protect their security. It has employed Experian, the financial data monitoring service, to help detect misuse of workers personal information and protect against identity fraud. The staff details were published at an unspecified location on the web for a few hours and were taken down immediately when they were discovered. Morrisons confirmed last week that no customer data had been lost and no colleagues would be left financially disadvantaged. The leak comes at a difficult time for Morrisons, which is battling to deal with sliding sales and profits in the face of heavy competition from grocery discounters such as Aldi and Lidl.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:38:18 +0000
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