Once again proving that no matter how strong the security system is, there is always a person with access that can break the safeguards:

A former employee at a Commerce Bank branch in Mount Laurel was indicted by a New Jersey grand jury yesterday on charges that she gave customers’ personal information to people who used it for identity theft.

[…] [S]he accessed at least 240 bank documents, giving loan information and account numbers to Anthony Wood, also known as Anthony Bickerstaff, 44, of Philadelphia, according to authorities.

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More than $100,000 worth of goods and at least five victims’ identities were stolen, Gregory Paw, director of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, said in a statement.

More at Philly.com.

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