Grzegorz Zachodni, a PC engineer, was sentenced to nine months at London Magistrate's Court for stealing bank details from an undercover TV reporter. The journalist, who was making a report on the quality of service offered by laptop repair shops, used covert software to reveal that Zachodni took his fault investigations too far.

Zachodni was working at a computer repair shop in Hammersmith called Laptop Revival. The reporter's laptop had a minor fault, a loose memory chip. The problem required a simple fix but Zachodni had an unusual approach.

Video footage and the covert software showed that Zachodni spent 20 minutes browsing through personal files, including photographs and files marked "private," before moving on to search for bank details. Zachodni also used a USB storage device

to copy details from the computer. He attempted to access the reporter's bank details six times using the password and login details from the computer. Sky News passed the details of their investigation to Metropolitan Police Service's Economic and Specialist Crime Unit after the report was aired.