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TfL Employees Sentenced for Major Data Breach Fraud

4/21/2026

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  • Luciana Akanbi, an HR employee at Transport for London, and her husband Femi Akanbi were sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.
  • They defrauded TfL by exploiting a data breach to submit 139 fraudulent tax rebate claims for 40 colleagues.
  • The fraud occurred from September 2021 to January 2022.
  • Judge David Miller described it as TfL's worst data breach.