Data Breach Alert: HSBC loses hundreds of thousands of customer records

Posted by Joe on April 7th, 2008

Global bank HSBC announced last week that they lost a computer disk containing personal information of approximately 370,000 customers in the UK.

The disk was being couriered to the companies life insurance headquarters in England when it was misplaced. Customer names, dates of birth and insurance information was included on the disk. Since account numbers and address details where not exposed in the breach the risk for identity theft was greatly decreased.

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Read more about the HSBC data breach at the BBC.

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