Thousands of Barclays customer files stolen and sold to scammers – report
Source: The Guardian
An investigation is under way after confidential files relating to customers of Barclays Bank were allegedly stolen and sold on to rogue City traders.
The Mail on Sunday said highly sensitive information including customers’ earnings, savings, mortgages, health issues and insurance policies ended up in the hands of unscrupulous brokers.
The leak was exposed by an anonymous whistleblower who passed the newspaper a memory stick containing files on 2,000 of the bank’s customers, the paper said. He claimed it was a sample from a stolen database of up to 27,000 files, which he said could be sold by for up to £50 per file.
Each report was about 20 pages long and among the victims were doctors, businesspeople, scientists, a musician and a cleaner, the newspaper said. All had sought financial advice from the bank and passed on their details during meetings with an adviser.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/09/thousands-of-barclays-customer-files-stolen-and-sold-to-scammers-report
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I only use my Barclays card when I purchase a computer (they give 0% interest for Apple purchases). So any extra activity should be easy to see. We already have 3 yrs of free credit monitoring and intervention service from hubby's and my workplace -- 75K PNPI records were stolen from there last summer. 
