http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080924.RNATIONAL24/TPStory/Business



By PAUL WALDIE

theglobeandmail.com

September 24, 2008



A determined thief managed to break into a locked office at National 

Bank of Canada's Montreal headquarters, avoid various security measures 

and pinch a laptop computer containing information about most of the 

bank's mortgage customers.



The theft occurred some time last Friday, said bank spokesman Denis 

Dubé. The thief broke into an employee's office and took the laptop 

computer, which was anchored by a cable. "The computer was linked to a 

cable and the cable was cut," he said. Nothing else was taken from the 

office and police are investigating.



Mr. Dubé said the computer contained some information about customers 

who have mortgages with the bank. He declined to say exactly how many 

names were on the laptop, other than it was a "high percentage" of the 

bank's clients.



National Bank is the sixth-largest bank in the country and has roughly 

30 per cent of the market share for financial services in Quebec.



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