Last December, I wrote about the 219 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees disciplined for snooping into taxpayer records last year.
This week, the UK's HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) which suffered a major data breach last year, announced this week that it had disciplined 600 of its staff over the past three years for inappropriately accessing customer records. There were 238 people disciplined in 2005, 180 in 2006, and 192 in 2007.
I guess the temptation to peek is just too great for many people in these organizations.
