Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5155486 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£350redress stated in the decision

Tue Dec 17deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Data and privacy, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

a data breach arising in connection with their application to open a joint accountData and privacy

admitted poor serviceService failure

Rules cited

UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5155486.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.