Highly sensitive fut coins information including customers' earnings, savings, mortgages, health issues and insurance policies, ended up in the hands of unscrupulous brokers, according to the Maill on Sunday.The leak was exposed by an anonymous whistle-blower who passed the newspaper a memory stick containing files on 2,000 of the bank's customers.
The unidentified man claimed it was a sample from a stolen database of up to 27,000 files, which he claimed could be sold by shady salesmen for up to ￡50 per file.
Each report is about 20 pages long, and among the victims are doctors, businessmen, scientists, a musician and a cleaner, the newspaper said.