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Australia: Secret Police Computer Files Infiltrated

Andrea Petrie writes on TheAge.com.au:

The girlfriend of a Melbourne crime figure has gained access to confidential police records in a serious security breach.

The woman, who was not a police officer, was working at the force's criminal records branch.

She was suspended from the force last month, resigned 14 days ago and has been interviewed by Purana taskforce detectives for inappropriately checking the law enforcement assistance program (LEAP) and VicRoads databases.

Force command confirmed yesterday that an employee from the corporate support area had resigned because of "one occasion in which she inappropriately accessed" the database.

But senior police sources have told The Age she has been accused of wiping the records of possibly hundreds of criminals and selling information from the confidential files. The Age believes that a taskforce has been set up to check the records examined by the woman while she worked at the unit.

posted by Fergie @ 4/13/2007 07:54:00 AM