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GetBack, a debt collection company whose voice was recently mainly caused by significant financial losses, obtained in 2015 access to the PESEL database. The same base is used by the police, the Internal Security Agency, the Central Bank and the bailiffs. But not everyone – only those who fulfill the restrictive conditions imposed by the Ministry of Digital Affairs.
This is a sensation
Granting a private company access to the database containing personal data of Poles can be considered a phenomenon. "Rzeczpospolita" indicates that a competitive Kruk, specializing in debt collection, has not obtained access, although it has been on the market for 20 years. Between the year and 2015, only eight such decisions were published. The Department of Digitization does not specify who was their beneficiary. It is known that at the time of making the decision, the head of the Ministry of the Interior in the government of Ewa Kopacz was Teresa Piotrowska (PO).
Huge leakage from the PESEL database
It turns out today that granting GetBack access to the base may be related to an incident occurred in August 2016. At that time, the departments of the Ministry of Digitalization discovered a strange leakage of data from the PESEL database. Initially, it was unclear whether it was an attack by cyber criminals or authorized unit actions.
After a short time, it turned out that it did not go into the base. The large unnatural traffic was generated by the debt collection companies and the bailiffs. And in particular, the one who sent to the system nearly two million requests and data collected for 800 000. people.
As part of the law, the Internal Security Agency determined that the bailiff's office was using its consent to access the PESEL database in order to collect data in an unauthorized manner. The information can be collected only in the case of real procedures. The authors have been accused of using the data in a manner inconsistent with their purpose and unauthorized access.
Today, it is suspected that some of the data collected by the bailiff's office could go to GetBack. Among the detainees, an assessor of the bailiff's office, who was at the same time the director of the collection company, had to be found.
Big losses
GetBack was noisy because of the gigantic loss recorded by the company – 1.2 billion zlotys. The sum of all debts amounts to 2.8 billion PLN. In case of bankruptcy, many investors may be affected by the injured company.
Also read: How GetBack fell. A happy endless story
The company's problems began in March when it was announced that it needed several hundred million capital. At the same time, the idea of issuing new shares seemed to recapitalize the company. Then the course of action began to fall rapidly.
What GetBack Does
GetBack earned when buying a debt for a fraction of its value. Banks, telecom operators and other institutions are getting rid of this problem. The debt collection company reckons that money can be obtained on the way to debt collection. The fact that the debt market in Poland is significant is evidenced by the fact that telecom customers have to pay a debt of 750 million PLN
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