Leeds Building Society dumps mortgage papers in street on 100 Mortgages

Leeds Building Society dumps mortgage papers in street
It seems as if more and more banks and building societies are not disposing of their customers details in the correct way. The latest to be guilty of this is Leeds Building Society in Belfast, as mortgage details of their customers were found on the street by a group of girls. As you would imagine the building society has come out fighting by saying, it is not possible to identify specific individuals on the misplaced mortgage papers however; an investigation is now underway to find out how this could have happened.

Marie Anderson, who was the former assistant information commissioner in Northern Ireland, has said that Leeds Building Society will have to carry out a review of their security process. The group who found the papers said that they were just blowing around in the street, Michael Bedwell who was in the group said “We noticed a lot of them had details, people’s names, different numbers,” he also added “I didn’t know what they meant or couldn’t understand them but they seemed to be related to their bank accounts.”

According to BBC News Leeds Building Society is taking this matter very seriously, and is now looking in to how this breach in security could have happened.

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