HSBC says bank data on 24,000 accounts stolen
Some 24,000 customers may have been affected by the theft of data from a Swiss branch of bank HSBC three years ago, the bank says.
Previously the private bank had said information on no more than ten accounts had been stolen by a former IT employee, who passed the data onto the French authorities, setting off a row between Paris and Bern.
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