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Bank details on stolen laptop

Sep 7 2008 by Tim Lewis, Wales On Sunday

A LAPTOP containing the personal details of 100 bank customers has been stolen from a Welsh branch.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed a computer was stolen in Newport in May, but said customers had not been informed of the theft because the details held on the laptop were encrypted.

Police said the theft happened in Commercial Street and that a man, who had been seen in the same branch earlier in the day, walked into an unlocked interview room where the computer was left unguarded.

He then picked it up and walked away with it.