Former Employee Charged With Accessing Thousands of Driver's Licenses
A former Minnesota state employee was charged Thursday with misdemeanors for allegedly accessing thousands of driver's licenses during a four-year period and storing 172 of them in an encrypted file. Ninety percent of victims in the data breach were women.
John A. Hunt, 48, of Woodbury, Minn., faces six misdemeanors, including misconduct by a public employee and unauthorized computer access. He is accused of illegally querying the state Driver and Vehicle Services database more than 19,000 times between 2008 and last October. If convicted, he could receive up to a year in jail and $3,000 in fines.
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Former Employee Charged With Accessing Thousands of Driver's Licenses
