Corrupt private investigators targeted HM Revenue and Customs, BT and British Gas to access sensitive private data | Mail Online

Corrupt private investigators targeted HM Revenue and Customs, BT and British Gas to access sensitive private data 

A friend of mine once worked for Directory Enquiries,some years ago.  Some staff were copying the data onto blank discs and selling them for £50 each !! In this computer age data can now be taken out onto a thumb drive,taken home and copied to disk,very easily.
I actually bought disks,from a marketing company,quite legally, which gave names,addresses and phone numbers of everybody in Britain!  It was a compilation of the voters roll and the telephone book. Both of which are public access lists.