The Morrisons employee accused of stealing and emailing the company’s entire 100,000 payroll database to journalists in 2014 did so because he bore a grudge over an unusual disciplinary misunderstanding.
According to the prosecution representing Morrisons at the Bradford Crown Court trial, 43 year-old Andrew Skelton decided to publish the database containing employee names, addresses, bank account numbers and national insurance numbers, in revenge for being incorrectly disciplined for receiving packages at the company’s head office in Bradford.
Morrisons initially believed that one package contained drugs but it transpired that Skelton was using the mailroom for to buy and sell goods on eBay.
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