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Councils where staff committed security breaches on the Department for Work and Pensions Customer Information System (CIS) Database between 2006 and 2009
Council
Date
Records breached
Disciplinary action
Prosecution?
Birmingham
January 2009
Mistaken access
CIS Suspension
DWP advised no
Breckland
Denied incident.
Admitted after FOI.
But no record kept.
Brent
Autumn 2006
Girlfriend
Sacked
No
Brighton
February 2008
Relative
Suspended
Bromley
April 2008
Friends, colleagues
No (DWP satisfied)
Carmarthenshire
July 2008
"Known personally"
* DP
Camden
September 2008
"We are unable to divulge"
Warning
Cardiff
August 2006
Celebrites
No (DWP consulted)
January 2008
On behalf of family member
Epsom & Ewell
July 2006
Own record
Suspended from system
Exeter
August 2007
"Benefits claimaint"
Glasgow
N/A
Celebrity
"Someone they knew"
Resigned
Harringey
Acquaintance
Hastings
November 2008
Friends father's address
DWP decided no
Hertsmere
July 2007
"Unable" to say
Hillingdon
January 2007
Family
Kerrier
March 2007
NE Derbyshire
September 2006
North Herts
Partner
N Somerset
Celebrities
North Tyneside
Penwith (Cornwall)
"Unknown"
Sefton
2007
Procedural error
2009
Colleagues
Investigation ongoing
Selby
November 2006
Solihull
"Council tax debtor"
Test Valley
"Someone known to them"
Tonbridge
August 2008
Friend
No (DWP agreed)
Torbay
Torfaen
March 2008
West Dorset
May 2008
Wirral
April 2007
*DP – Councils refused to release the information because they said to do so would breach the Data Protection Act.
Source: FOI requests on councils involved
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