A Manulife insider is blowing the whistle on what he says were major privacy issues within the company’s Canadian banking division that have potentially put thousands of customers at risk.
Customers’ bank account information and other personal details — millions of names, addresses, account details, social insurance and credit card numbers, birth dates and transactions among other things — could be widely seen in a database with few privacy protections in place — accessed by more than 100 employees and shared with an unknown number of others, he said.
“Anyone who’s been a customer of Manulife bank … your data could have been taken