Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k
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Two former RAC employees in the UK illegally accessed and sold nearly 29,500 lines of car-crash victims' personal data via WhatsApp to an unknown buyer; they were convicted under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and the Data Protection Act 2018, received suspended prison sentences and unpaid work, and have been ordered to repay over £118,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
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