Fraudsters’ access to Barclays data revealed

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Fraudsters had access to the personal details of 30&comma;000 Barclays customers for up to seven years&comma; it has been revealed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Private information on jobs&comma; salaries and debts was found on a memory stick by chance in a police raid&comma; and it is feared that multiple copies of the data may have been made&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Daily Mail reports that the treasure trove of information also included names&comma; dates of birth and addresses&comma; and that victims have been offered £250 in compensation for the breach&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A Barclays spokesman said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is not a new theft of data from Barclays&period; Every indication is that the data here was part of the same theft of data that was reported last year&comma; relating to data stolen in 2008&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It is simply a separate USB data stick that was not received at that point in time and was recently discovered by the police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As with the theft last year&comma; the details on the recently discovered USB data stick belong to a group of customers linked to the Barclays Financial Planning business which ceased operating in 2011&period; The data concerned was from 2008 or earlier&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have proactively contacted the affected customers to apologise&comma; as well as to offer them enhanced fraud protection and monitoring&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have also proactively offered customers compensation for the inconvenience this will have no doubt caused them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are asking each customer to call if they feel their individual circumstances warrant different compensation&comma; especially if they believe that they had a fraudulent event at any point since this data was stolen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have also proactively reviewed all data that we hold to see if we can see any sign of suspicious activity and will continue to do that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Protecting our customers’ data is our highest priority&comma; and we take this issue extremely seriously&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-6918d7a8dde9c">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-6918d7a8dde9c'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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