Two former security officers from the Neiman Marcus department store in Northbrook, IL, who were fired last year for engaging in sex acts at work, are filing lawsuit against their former employers claiming that they were videotaped illegally.

According to the story reported in the Chicago Tribune, The former security employees, Veronica Miranda and Steven Chalem, are alleging that the store’s manager videotaped them while they were employed as loss prevention investigators at the store back in 2007. Their suit claims that the manager installed a hidden camera in the loss prevention office and began recording them as well as other employees, and that the manager shared the videotape with several other people and on a nationwide online database of security personnel. This video included footage of Chalem and Miranda having sex in the office.

Chalem and Miranda were fired last October “for engaging in sexual activity with each other in the loss prevention office” on two separate occasions, it says in court documents.

Both Chalem and Miranda are now seeking damages because the taping, and the sharing of the tape, have made it so neither of the plaintiffs have been able to find work.

Chalem and Miranda believe that the videotaping was in violation of Illinois’ eavesdropping statute, and that the incident has also caused them emotional distress.

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