Records relate to policies bought from ING Life
More evidence emerged yesterday of security breaches making personal particulars available on the internet, as police chiefs scrambled to plug a loophole that allowed private details of complainants against the police to be leaked.
A South China Morning Post search found details of about 600 insurance policyholders freely available in the archives of the Google search engine, although the original file and website had been removed.
Meanwhile, telecommunications company CSL apologised for having leaked the personal records of some of its customers, which were also still available yesterday in the Google cache.
The Post found a database containing records of customers who bought insurance from ING Life between 1984 and 2004. It contained data on the type and amount of coverage bought, and beneficiaries' names, phone numbers, dates of birth and addresses.
The data was found in Google's cache in a search for database files.
