From: People Management
Supermarket will have to pay compensation to staff following landmark decision on cybersecurity
Employers may be liable for confidential data leaks caused by current or former employees, after the High Court found retailer Morrisons vicariously liable for the actions of a worker who exposed 100,000 colleagues’ personal information to the public.
The supermarket had denied liability for the actions of Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor at its Bradford headquarters, who stole information including the salaries, birth dates and bank details of vast swathes of its workforce in 2014. He then leaked the information via data sharing websites and shared it with several newspapers.
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