Database of 700,000 Bank Borrowers Released.

Banking secrets go on sale
(Kommersant - Moscow, Russia, August 16, 2006)

Credit reference bureaus and banks received emails yesterday with offers to buy a database on borrowers who purchased goods on credit in retail chains. The database has more than 700,000 entries. If the offer is not a fake, this crime may deal a hard blow on the image of banking business which is traditionally built on confidential information. Police experts, however, suspect the anonymous sellers of a scam. They say they have failed to buy the database so far.

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http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=697957  (in English)

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