Former employee jailed for accessing restricted data
BURY, U.K. — An unhappy hospital employee who hacked into her employer’s payroll records was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison in the United Kingdom recently.
Financial administrator Karen Enabofio accessed restricted data to find out about her colleagues’ wages at Cygnet Hospital in Bury, along with patient information.
But the employer only discovered the 2015 breach in December when Enabofio quit her job after three years, according to the Daily Mail.
After she deleted her work files and financial documents, IT restored the deleted files, including Enabofio’s emails. There they found attachments containing the privileged information.
But a judge accepted that the employee had not hacked the system for her financial gain, but rather to “put her mind at rest” because she had a grievance with pay and lack of promotion.
