Nationwide U.K. sends letters about tax residency to Irish customers in error

[ardmacha]

I am just wondering if those people who received this letter have received a follow up letter apologising for the error and asking them to ignore the request?

I haven't received any letter of clarification.

If not, it seems that they may have gathered quite a bit of information from people who responded.

At least I am not one of them.

 

[pudds]

Got my letter of apology yesterday, but no 'compensation' for all the stress and worry they
put me through

 

[Eithneangela]

Ditto. Wasn't stressed and worried though, thanks to the posts here.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

 

[Lightning]

RTE have picked up on the story today with an article here.

Nationwide UK (Ireland) were way too slow sending out apology letters.

 

[ardmacha]

"The company said it has informed the Data Protection Commissioner of the mistake and has been told that the incident does not represent a data breach."

This is rather disingenuous, it is not a data breach but rather unwarranted solicitation of personal data.

 

[Laramie]

I never got any letter of apology. This suggests that perhaps they don't really know who got the original letters and who didn't.

 

[Duke of Marmalade]

I got the original letter and the apology letter. Come to think of it there was quite a lot of "stress and worry" now that pudds reminds me, in fact I think I feel a twinge in my back. How about a class action guys?