Bunq reported a possible knowledge breach to the Dutch Knowledge Safety Authority (AP) this week, the privateness regulator instructed the NOS know. The AP calls experiences about staff secretly trying into buyer accounts worrying and can contact the financial institution about this. The Banking Disciplinary Court docket, which investigates financial institution staff who violate codes of conduct, has requested bunq for clarification.
Disciplinary legislation Banks says it has not but acquired any experiences from bunq. “It’s a undeniable fact that unauthorized peeking at a checking account is opposite to the banker’s oath and in nearly all circumstances it results in a disciplinary sanction.” Final yr, the authority dominated {that a} short-term employee resulting from ‘invoice peeping‘not allowed to work within the banking sector for 9 months.
Outgoing Minister of Finance Van Weyenberg calls the experiences worrying and assumes that bunq will examine the allegations completely. “At Bunq, we repeatedly monitor who sees which cost particulars. We’ve got not found any indication of systematic abuse. In some circumstances, it was a grey space. These staff have had a dialog,” Bunq CEO Ali Niknam beforehand stated in a response to NOS.
