Thursday, 11 March 2010 - BBC News
About 24,000 clients of HSBC’s private banking operation in Switzerland had personal details stolen by a former employee, the company has admitted.
In December, HSBC said that just 10 account holders were affected by the theft, which happened three years ago.
The information stolen concerns 15,000 accounts that are still active. Another 9,000 accounts have been closed since the theft.
HSBC says that it does not think the data can be used to access accounts.
Read the rest at the BBC News.
After reading this article I was simply amazed. HSBC first learned of the breach in December 2008. That’s 2008! And, it took prosecutors to let them know how bad it really was. If you would like to read more about this story, follow this Google link for “HSBC Data Breach.”
