4 November 2008 - Bank of Ireland customer data on missing device
Bank of Ireland customer data on missing device
The Independent reported on 4th November 2008 (Allison Bray)[1]that the personal details of close to a thousand Bank of Ireland customers have gone missing after an employee wrongfully copied them on to a computer memory device which was subsequently lost. Bank spokeswoman Anne Mathews has said that both Bank of Ireland and the Data Protection Commission have launched separate investigations into the matter after the USB memory device was reported lost last Wednesday. The newspaper reports the bank as saying that most of the 894 customers affected have already been contacted by the bank but stressed that the material that was copied on to the memory device was not financially sensitive.
