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In 2007 a 79-year-old man died shortly after a brick was thrown through his living room window. Police have investigated a number of incidents where their own staff have unlawfully accessed people's personal details from the olice national computer. To back up its call for custodial sentencing, the ICO said it was investigating a separate case in which forged identity documents were used to gain unlawful access to 41 people's credit files held by a credit reference agency. News of the phone scam was part of the watchdog's submission to a Ministry of Justice inquiry into the use of prison for the known or reckless misuse of personal data. The ICO is pushing for breaches of data protection law to be punishable with jail sentences, not just fines.

"Up until today we were asked to keep this issue confidential for legal reasons, and we are surprised to see this has been made public," a spokesman said. T-Mobile expressed "surprise" that the commissioner's office had gone public before bringing any cases to court.

"We are considering the evidence with a view to prosecuting those responsible and I am keen to go much further and close down the entire unlawful industry in personal data." "Many people will have wondered why and how they are being contacted by someone they do not know just before their existing phone contract is about to expire," said the information commissioner, Christopher Graham. It had raided a number of premises and was preparing a prosecution file. "The number of records involved runs into the millions, and it appears that substantial amounts of money changed hands," the ICO said. The employee allegedly sold the account information to a number of "brokers", who sold the data on. "We have since put systems in place to minimise the risk of it happening again," a T-Mobile spokesman said. The ICO did not name the network, but a spokesman for T-Mobile confirmed it "proactively" approached the watchdog after finding evidence that an employee, who has left the company, had been illegally selling customer details.

They pay hefty commissions to anyone signing up customers to contracts lasting up to two years. The commissioner's office is pushing for stronger powers to halt the unlawful trade in personal data, which is growing due to cut-throat competition among mobile phone companies.