Thousands of Barclays customers’ data ‘stolen and sold to on rogue traders’

[citizenB]

 

Thousands of Barclays customers have had their personal data stolen and sold on to manipulative “rogue traders”, a newspaper has claimed.

A whistle-blower told the Mail on Sunday the leaked data included people’s medical issues, incomes, savings and insurance policies – described as a “gold mine” that could be manipulated by traders running investment scams.

 

The former broker passed on a memory stick of 2,000 Barclay’s customers’ details, a sample of the reported 27,000 that were leaked in all, telling the newspaper he wanted to put a stop to an “illegal trade [that] is going on all the time in the City”.

 

 

For the full story : - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/thousands-of-barclays-customers-data-stolen-and-sold-to-on-rogue-traders-9117329.html

[citizenB]

From the BBC

 

 

Investigations have been launched after a report that thousands of confidential files with Barclays Bank customers details had been stolen and sold.

 

The Mail on Sunday said an anonymous whistleblower had handed it a memory stick with the personal data of 2,000 Barclays customers, saying information on a further 25,000 was also available.

 

The files are said to hold passport and national insurance numbers, as well as money and health information.

 

Barclays said it was investigating.

 

 

 

The files date from 2008. The customers in question had originally contacted the bank seeking financial advice from Barclays Financial Planning.

 

That division was shut down in 2011.

 

The Information Commissioner's Office said it would be working with the newspaper and police who were seeking more details.

 

The maximum fine for losing personal data is £500,000.

 

Financial commentator, David Buick, said the report was alarming: "It's the breach of trust... you as an individual actually knowing that your personal details about your life has been passed on to potentially an unscrupulous individual who will try and behave like a maverick and capitalise on your life.

 

"If this is proven it is absolutely disgraceful."

 

 

Read more : - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26106138

[rebel11]

We need more whistle-blowers to come forward, there's probably a lot more that the banks have done and are doing that they shouldn't be doing.