Santa Clarita- [consumerist.com]- Best Buy is on the offense, launching an internal witch hunt to unmask the “rogue employees” responsible for exposing Geek Squad’s pervasive culture of porn pilfering. Their first victim is the Geek Squad supervisor of the Santa Clarita store, one of the only Best Buy locations whose former employees were quoted in recent articles, print as being a center for porn pilfering.

Former Geek Squad agent Brett Haddock, quoted in recent articles in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the LA Daily News, reports, “I have confirmation that the direct Supervisor of the Geek Squad in the Santa Clarita store was asked to step down, but I do not have exact numbers right now as to how many employees have been terminated.”

Furthermore, Haddock says that some of his fellow coworkers are none too happy with his whistleblowing. “Some employees have been terminated as a direct result of the articles,” writes Haddock. “Said employees are a tid bit “miffed” with me, and the article I rode in on. I have already been sent text messages and emails from people upset with “what I did.”

I’m standing up for what I believe is moral and right. I’m sorry for any legitimately innocent person that works for Best Buy whom was wrongfully terminated. It is obvious that Best Buy will seek a fall guy for the incident, so they can site it as “an isolated one” but what they do not realize is the stories that run on Consumerist.com depict a nationwide epidemic with Agents of the Geek Squad.”

Hopefully, Best Buy/Geek Squad’s vigor will extend to a systematic investigation of every single Geek Squad for possible breaches of customer privacy. An isolated report from a Geek Squad agent in the northeast that they had to remove their precinct’s harddrives and mail them to Geek Squad headquarters to check for “privacy issues” could be signs of steps in the right direction.