Capital One (Europe) plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5371734 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£100redress stated in the decision

Thu Jul 18deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Identity checks and access, Data and privacy

In the Ombudsman’s words

allowed someone to open a credit card in her nameIdentity checks and access

this was a breach of her personal dataData and privacy

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5371734.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.