Probe into ‘stolen’ Barclays files
An investigation is under way after c onfidential 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 whistle-blower who passed the newspaper a memory st ick containing files on 2,000 of the bank's customers, it said.
He claimed it was a sample from a stolen database of up to 27,000 files, which he said could be sold by shady salesmen for up to £50 per file.
Each report is about 20 pages long, and among the victims are doctors, businessmen, scientists, a musician and a cleaner, the newspaper said.
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