Passport Snoop Faces Little or No Jail Time for Database Breach:

A low-level State Department employee pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to charges of accessing hundreds of confidential passport files, including those of celebrities, actors, athletes, politicians and family members -– and he likely faces little to no jail time.

Dwayne Cross, 41, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, became the department’s second employee to plead guilty to federal criminal charges of unlawfully accessing a computer.

As part of the department-wide security breach, the passport files of Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton were illegally accessed. The department declined to name the identities of the people Cross unlawfully accessed. But Cross confessed that he accessed the files out of idle curiosity.

Source:  Wired