• Security guard pleads guilty to hacking his employer

  A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.

• US State Dept. worker sentenced for passport snooping

  An employee of the U.S. Department of State was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 125 electronic passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

• Microsoft settles employee spying case

  Microsoft has settled a lawsuit with a former employee that it once charged with fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract.

• T-Mobile UK employees sold customer data

  Workers at T-Mobile UK have been selling customer data to brokers who work for the competition, T-Mobile and the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday.

• Eighth person charged with passport snooping

  An eighth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing numerous electronic passport files that are supposed to be confidential, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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