Some days back, a scandal of data theft was reported in
which a female employee of Barclays Bank stole the personal information of a
customer from the bank’s database. It was later revealed that the employee were
dating that customer and wanted to extract some personal information of his to
know his marital status, number of children he has, address and other
information. She took that man’s data and forwarded to one of her friends to
keep it safe. While she was performing such activities, she was well aware of
the fact that she is going against the code of conduct and can cause her severe
punishment and can also cost her job.
Later, that female employee was sentenced to a fine of £2,990
and ordered by the court to pay the victim surcharge of amount £120
along with the prosecution fee of £250. She accessed the client’s
personal information more than 20 times and also handed over the records to the
third person. The punishment that the lady worker suffered was very lenient,
even Police did not record the prosecution in their database, and the woman has
a clean sheet regarding any sort of crime. These sorts of precedents will not
help a bit in controlling the trend of data theft.
The person who got his personal information compromised was
quite lucky that he did not become a victim of cyber crime. The data thieve had
to intention of performing any fraudulent activity with his personal information;
otherwise, he would have suffered big time. As the experts rate insider threat
as one of the biggest threat to data security again and again, companies need
to take some vital steps to neutralize this threat. Securing client’s data and
other sensitive information under the password protection of software that can
act as a digital File Lock will
definitely help the cause. Data breach can harm the goodwill of the
organization and can also cause big financial losses, so they need to make sure
data security is unbreakable.
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