A staff member in the office that audits WA's government departments downloaded highly confidential information about all of the state's 8,800 police officers.
"His consistent explanation was that the information was available to everyone to see and he did not think it was inappropriate at that point in time," the report found.The CCC said it accepted the staff member was"under extreme stress due to issues of a personal nature" at the time and that he had not acted with a corrupt intention.
He claimed he did what he did because he was angry at the time, but the watchdog said"there [was] another more sinister explanation possible". "Regardless, Mr Ariff acted to destroy the IronKey in order to cause a detriment to the OAG, both by loss of the device itself … and the data it held ."The CCC described all the revelations as"startling".
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