Rabobank is among the top 10 banks in Europe and among the top 25 in the world. Based in the Netherlands with assets over 500 billion dollars, nearly nine million customers, It was one of the first European banks to implement a service-orientated mobile banking service. With over 500 new users every week, is one of the largest mobile banking providers in Europe. It is also one of Europe’s largest Internet banks.

February 2005 Choicepoint, a leading provider of ID and credential validating services notified 30,000 consumers that fraudsters had gained access to their profiles containing social security numbers, credit histories, criminal records, etc. Initially, Choicepoint believed 145,000 consumers were affected (subsequently revised to around 500,000).Federal investigators are believed to have informed Choicepoint that fraudsters, who set up bogus business accounts to gain legitimate access to consumer data, had breached its files.