Barclays examines possible data theft from 27,000 customers

Barclays Plc, the U.K.’s second-largest bank by assets, is speaking with regulators, customers and British authorities about a possible criminal leak of client account information.

Bloomberg News reports as many as 27,000 customers' files containing personal and financial information were stolen.

The bank’s probe into the leak suggests the data is from 2008 or earlier and is linked to a financial-planning unit that was shut in 2011, Carey Withey, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement

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