Bank Austria: Massive Case of Customer Data Abuse.

Politics ♦ Published: December 4, 2013; 17:46 ♦ (Vindobona)

Bank Austria files a lawsuit on the abuse of consumer data as Austrian magazine “News” got hold of data of around 5,000 costumers

Bank Austria: Massive Case of Customer Data Abuse. / Picture: © Uni Credit Group Bank Austria

Weekly magazine “News” (Thursday issue) has published the constumer data of Bank Austria. On Wednesday Bank Austria told in a press release that these data “obviously ended up in the hands of third parties.” Bank Austria announced to file a lawsuit against unknown since the data are subject to the bank secret and data protection.

Moreover, Bank Austria rejects the…