Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed 80,500 more people could have been impacted by the financial institution’s IT glitch, which resulted in customers having their financial information exposed.
The group, which is composed of Lloyds Bank, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland, has been forced to pay out £250,000 after nearly half a million customers were hit by the error.
On March 12, 446,915 customers of the Big Four Bank either saw other people’s transactions or had their data shared thanks to IT issues.I
In a follow-up letter to the Treasury Committee regarding the glitch, Lloyds has revealed joint account holders are among the 80,500 individuals believed to have been impacted.
Lloyds Bank has revealed more than 80,000 extra customers are likely to have been impacted by the IT glitch
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In a statement, the bank said: “We also issued an alert on the app home screen to these 80,508 joint account holders, with a small number of exceptions based on particular customer circumstances.”
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