By John McCarthy

The 2014 leak of almost 100,000 Morrisons employees’ personal details has sparked legal action against the supermarket by the thousands affected by the breach.

Morrisons’ vast employee database containing data including national insurance numbers, salaries, DOB, home addresses, bank account details was uploaded to filesharing websites and sent to national newspapers in May 2014.

Former employee Andrew Skelton, who perpetrated the breach, currently serves an eight year jail term for the misdeed however, a lawsuit, backed by a substantial number of staff holds the supermarket liable for the breach.

Skelton’s exposure of employee data cost the supermarket a full £2m to address Read full story ›

Source: The Drum