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A former Barclays Bank employee has been fined £3,360 after illegally accessing the details of a customer’s account. In one case the employee, Jennifer Addo, found out the number of children the customer had and passed the details to the customer’s then partner, who was a friend of Ms Addo. Appearing at Croydon Magistrates Court today, 27-year-old Ms Addo was prosecuted under section 55 of the Data Protection Act and fined £2,990 for 23 offences and ordered to pay a £120 victim surcharge and £250 prosecution costs.
The bank was alerted to Ms Addo’s activities when the customer contacted the bank to report that information from his account appeared to have been passed to his then partner. An investigation was launched by the bank that discovered Ms Addo had illegally accessed the customer’s details on 22 occasions between 10 May 2011 and 8 August 2011. This was despite Barclays informing its staff that they should not access customers’ accounts unless required......Read more here
The bank was alerted to Ms Addo’s activities when the customer contacted the bank to report that information from his account appeared to have been passed to his then partner. An investigation was launched by the bank that discovered Ms Addo had illegally accessed the customer’s details on 22 occasions between 10 May 2011 and 8 August 2011. This was despite Barclays informing its staff that they should not access customers’ accounts unless required......Read more here