According to a report from the Mail on Sunday, as many as 27,000 customer files containing personal and financial information were taken from the U.K.’s second-largest bank, Barclays Plc (BARC).
The information included details on income, savings, mortgages, health issues, insurance policies and passport and national insurance numbers.
The newspaper said “the whistle-blower provided a memory stick containing files on 2,000 customers and had told it that each of the 27,000 files could be sold for as much as 50 pounds ($82)”.
This really shows that there needs to be tighter security within these large organizations.