A former Council employee who gained illegal access to the council’s computer system and changed the records of ex-colleagues, has been sentenced to 12 weeks in prison. Local Berkshire report that Claire Playfoot was found guilty of gaining unauthorised access to the council’s computer system a year after leaving her job with intent to commit fraud. She had admitted altering one colleague’s record so that it described her as ‘obese’. One ex-colleague had her sickness record altered, another had had his contracted hours of work reduced and another had had his appraisal rating altered from satisfactory to ‘requires improvement’.
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