A Morrisons employee has been arrested following the theft and online publication of thousands of staff members' salary, bank account and address details.
According to a statement by West Yorkshire Police the man, who is from Leeds, was arrested near the supermarket's headquarters in Bradford and is now in custody.
Not good enough
Embarrassingly, the details appeared online mere hours after chief executive Dalton Phillips boasted that the company's new IT systems would be key in improving the chain's performance. The details were online for a few hours before being taken down, with, according to the supermarket, no loss of customer data.
The company has said that it's reviewing its data security measures and is working with banks and credit services to help employees secure their accounts. Staff expressed anger that they had not been informed of the leak in time, and that posting notices on Facebook to notify employees was far from good enough.
The leak comes just weeks after the arrest of the group's treasurer Paul Coyle over allegations of insider dealing.