Takamatsu Hyakuju Bank Customer information leakage Possibility of passing to fraud criminals October 31 18:29
Hyakushima Bank, headquartered in Takamatsu City, announced that employees in their 30s had leaked information about their clients and their company accounts and personal account numbers to acquaintances. Some of the customers were victims of fraud, and the bank dismissed the banker for disciplinary dismissal because the leaked information was likely to have passed on to the offender.
According to the announcement, a male employee in his early 30s who was in charge of sales at the branch of Hyakusei Bank leaked customer information to a 30-year-old man from November last August.
What was leaked was that the three companies that were customers and the information of 14 individuals, such as the names and addresses, bank account numbers, and deposit balances, were handed over to an acquaintance.
In September, when the police investigated the fraud case, the leak was discovered by listening to the situation from this employee, and when the bank apologized to the customer, one of them was victimized by the fraud case. I understand.
According to the person concerned, the bank employee was working at the Higashi-Osaka branch in Osaka Prefecture, and the bank said that the leaked information was likely to have passed to the culprit of the fraud case by some route, as of October 28 Criminal prosecution is considered after disciplinary dismissal.
Mr. Ryohei Kagawa, Managing Director of Hyakuju Bank at the press conference, apologized, “I am very sorry to betray the trust of customers.