One of Moniker's employee had violated the company's policy by distributing customer data for a single domain name registration .
This scandal involves a Moniker employee ,a domain name under privacy and the customer that owns the domain name.
Even though the employee's name was haven't been made public neither by Moniker ,nor by Rick Schwartz who wrote an article about the scandal,this is an unfortunate event that may be very important for all domainers .
Moniker made a statement about the unauthorized release of customer data by saying :
"Moniker has learned that one of its employees violated company policy by distributing customer data for a single domain name registration. The employee has been placed on administrative leave while the company further reviews the matter."
"Only one employee and one customer registration were involved. However, unauthorized data access of any kind, no matter how large or small, is an issue taken very seriously by Moniker and by its parent company, Oversee.net, and is being addressed directly."



