Wonga data breach could affect nearly 250,000 UK customers

Personal details from hundreds of thousands of accounts may have been illegally accessed, admits payday lender

More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga are being warned that their personal data may have been stolen in a data breach at the firm.

The online lender said it was "urgently investigating illegal and unauthorised access" to the personal data of some of its customers in the UK and Poland. It is understood that the breach could affect up to 270,000 current and former customers, including 245,000 in the UK. The company would not disclose where it had taken place.