Rogue Employees Sell World Cup Fans' Passport Data

Posted by timothy on Friday September 10, 2010 @02:22PM from the penalty-box-with-bars-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Reports are coming in that the Information Commissioner's Office has started investigating FIFA, the world football governing body, over allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans' — including their passport data — were accessed by one or more members of staff and then sold on the black market. It is alleged that the details of more than 35,000 English fans — who visited Germany for the 2006 World Cup — had their passport and allied data sold to ticket touts for marketing purposes."

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Re:One more reason just to kill scalpers. by SudoGhost · 2010-09-10 15:23 · Score: 1, Redundant

Because then that promotes someone buying 100 tickets at full price, and selling them for double. That takes away from 100 people who were going to be able to buy tickets at full price.