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No confirmation from Norvik banka over possible client data leak

Nina Kolyako, BC, Riga, 12.04.2010.Print version
Norvik banka have neither confirmed nor denied reports of a possible leak of data on client transactions.

As the business portal Nozare.lv was told by Valda Kipane, a spokeswoman for the bank's Advertising and Communications Department, until the results of the ongoing investigation are known, the bank is prevented by section 64 of the Law on Credit Institutions from providing information either directly or indirectly on client accounts or services provided to clients.

 

Kipane indicated that the investigation will clarify whether the leaked data has indeed come from Norvik banka, or from some other institution. "As a bank, we are obliged to provide information on demand to several institutions, for example to the State Revenue Service or the State Police," explained the bank's representative.

 

Yesterday, April 11, the LNT show "Top 10" reported that a Norvik banka client had requested the State Data Inspectorate to investigate how printouts of her bank account information, including her personal identification number, could have come into the hands of a third person.

 

Kipane confirmed that the woman in question was a client of the bank, but it is still not known how her data came to be in the hands of a third person, and whether this was the fault of the bank.






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