Bulgaria’s DSK Bank, a unit of Hungary’s OTP Group, has been fined 1 million levs ($569,930) for a data breach that affected over 33,000 clients, as reported by Reuters. The Bulgarian personal data watchdog said the full names, addresses, copies of ID cards as well as bank account numbers and property deed data of 33,492 people who have taken loans from the bank had been improperly disclosed and accessed by third parties. Personal data of loan guarantors, spouses and contracting parties that were part of over 23,000 loan dossiers had also been breached.
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