Tax office looking into employee breaches

  • 2003-07-10
  • Melanie O’Connell
TALLINNThe Estonian Tax Board announced that it was investigating several staff suspected of misusing confidential tax information.The investigations are the result of random checks made to establish what employees were accessing in the department's database.With 5 percent of staff randomly audited, 68 employees have had their computer history thoroughly scrutinized.While the vast majority were cleared and found to only have accessed work related material, there are several outstanding cases where it appears staff viewed material simply for personal use.Tax board officials refused to specif...
 
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