Privacy News Wonga loan-firm Security Breach affects 270k customers

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Controversial short-term loan firm Wonga has some bad news for its current and former customers:

We are urgently working to establish further details and contacting those who we know have been impacted. The information may have included one or more of the following: name, e-mail address, home address, phone number, the last four digits of your card number (but not the whole number) and/or your bank account number and sort code.

As The Guardian reports, current and former customers in the UK and Poland are thought to have been impacted by the security breach - a total of some 270,000 individuals, including 245,000 in the UK.
 

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