OTP's Bulgarian unit fined for data breach affecting over 33,000 clients

mood · Aug 28, 2019

OTP's Bulgarian unit fined for data breach affecting over 33,000 clients
August 28, 2019
https://uk.reuters.com/article/otp-...ch-affecting-over-33000-clients-idUKL5N25O5HE

Bulgaria’s DSK Bank, a unit of Hungary’s OTP Group, has been fined 1 million levs ($569,930) for a data breach that afffected over 33,000 clients, the country’s Commission for Personal Data Protection said on Wednesday.

The personal data watchdog said the full names, addresses, copies of ID cards as well as bank account numbers and property deed data of 33,492 people who have taken loans from the bank had been improperly disclosed and accessed by third parties.
Personal data of loan guarantors, spouses and contracting parties that were part of over 23,000 loan dossiers had also been breached.

“DSK Bank was fined by the Commission for Personal Data Protection over a non-digital data theft carried against it,” the bank said in a statement. “DSK Bank accepts the fine and cooperates with the authorities to further improve its personal data protection measures.”
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