Brief: CBA medical privacy breach probed, Credit union culls brands, Westpac ordered to reinstate ba
As CBA prepared in July for the sale of its insurance arm, CommInsure, it discovered a potential privacy breach that may have given bank staff access to customers' sensitive medical data, the ABC reports. Medical information provided to the insurer was made available to other arms of the bank, including to staff responsible for approving mortgage applications. The bank told the ABC it is currently working to ascertain whether any of the data was "accessed inappropriately". Illawarra Credit Union has from this month dropped two legacy brands; Catalyst Money (which was based at Uni of NSW) and Western City Credit Union. A third brand, Shoalhaven Credit Union, ICU retired some time ago. The Fair Work Commission has ordered Westpac to reinstate a mobile lending manager dismissed for misconduct, reports news.com.au. Kefeng Deng was fired for using his personal email for confidential customer information, allegedly inserting scanned signatures into loan applications, using emailed IDs for verification, accepting customer documents from unrelated third parties and knowingly inputting incorrect information into the system. The Fair Work commission found most of the allegations (other than the use of personal email) were either unsubstantiated or not as serious as alleged, and said the bank's treatment of Deng (including grilling him for several hours) was "blatantly unfair".