Nine British workers in the public sector have been terminated for illegally accessing the Customer Information System (CIS) database. The records accessed were primarily those of friends of the workers, as well as celebrity records. The CIS is the core database of the British government's National Identity Scheme.
The accused are among 34 council workers who illegally accessed the Customer Information System database, which holds the biographical data of the population that will underpin the government's multi-billion-pound ID card program.
The CIS database, run by the British Department for Work and Pensions, stores up to 9,800 records on over 90 million people. These records include sensitive data, such as ethnicity, relationship history, Pending fraud investigations, and whether the individual has special needs.
This breach is one of many perpetrated by insiders in various UK government divisions. Check out more breaches here.
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