Halifax mortgage data stolen

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http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39166555,00.htm

UK high street bank Halifax has admitted stolen documents from one of 
its employees contained data on 13,000 mortgage customers.

The documents were in a briefcase stolen from the locked car of an 
employee last week and the bank yesterday started writing to affected 
customers, after first reporting the breach to the Financial Services 
Authority (FSA) and the police.

Around 1,800 of the 13,000 customer records exposed by the theft 
included name, address, mortgage account number and account balance. 
The remainder included name, mortgage account number and approval status.

According to a spokesman for Halifax: "It would be almost impossible 
for any fraud to be committed with the information on the printout."

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