http://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2207085/barclays-chairman-identity By Iain Thomson vnunet.com 11 Jan 2008 Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays Bank, has had 10,000 stolen by an identity thief. The fraudster gathered enough personal information on Agius to convince a call centre employee to send out a replacement Barclaycard in his name. The thief took the card to a high street branch of the bank and withdrew 10,000. "It was down to human error. Procedures were not followed fully and we have learned from it," Barclaycard told the BBC. "All Barclays customers have a 100 per cent fraud guarantee as long as they take reasonable care of their information." The bank has introduced a new security code word system for senior employees so that the same incident could not happen again. Experts have already warned that 2008 will be a bumper year for identity fraudsters. __________________________________________________________________ Visit InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/
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