ICBC employee fired; accused of accessing JIBC victims’ info
Posted December 14, 2011 2:21 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A woman who worked for ICBC for 15 years has been accused of illegally accessing the personal information of 65 people.
Thirteen of the victims were targets in several shootings and arsons across the Lower Mainland that have all been linked to the Justice Institute of British Columbia.
“We can now state the investigation revealed a link to an ICBC employee, who allegedly accessed personal information of 65 individuals, including the 13 identified victims. That employee, along with other individuals, is under continued police investigation,” says Chief Supt. Janice Armstrong, operations officer for the Lower Mainland District Regional Police Service.
RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen says the victims all had a common link.
“The common denominator between these victims is that they were connected in some way to the Justice Institute, either past or present instructors, past or present students or some other looser connection,” he says.
ICBC President John Schubert says the worker has lost her job, and won’t be getting severance pay.
“We’re absolutely appalled by this and apologize to our customers for the privacy breach. We’re doing everything we can to assist the RCMP with their investigation,” Schubert says.
“We have conducted a thorough internal and an independent external review of our systems as a result of the privacy breach and have taken steps to better guard against this type of incident from happening again.”
In September, the RCMP only believed 10 people were targeted, including former students, workers, and other people with links to the police training facility in New Westminster. Police say the victims do not appear to be linked to any criminal activity.
The attacks have taken place since April of this year at various places in the Lower Mainland.
No charges have been laid and police say the investigation is ongoing.
