| Published Thu, May 3rd 2018 at 08:28, Updated May 3rd 2018 at 08:31 GMT +3Australia's troubled Commonwealth Bank admitted Thursday it had lost financial records for almost 20 million customers in a major security blunder. (AFP)Australia's troubled Commonwealth Bank admitted Thursday it had lost financial records for almost 20 million customers in a major security blunder -- but insisted there was no need to worry. The nation's biggest company said it could not find two magnetic data tapes that stored names, addresses, account numbers and transaction details from 2000 to 2016. Text the word 'NEWS' to 22840But ongoing monitoring of the 19.8 million customer accounts involved is continuing, just in case. "We take the protection of customer data very seriously and incidents like this are not acceptable," said Angus Sullivan, acting group executive for the lender's retail banking services.

Source: Standard Digital May 03, 2018 05:26 UTC