Tesco Bank confirms almost 20,000 customers had money stolen from accounts by hackers

Nearly 20,000 Tesco Bank customers have had money stolen from their accounts as a result of a weekend hack attack, the group's chief executive has said.

The British bank confirmed that of its 136,000 current account holders, 40,000 had seen suspicious transactions over the weekend, while money had been fraudulently withdrawn from around 20,000 accounts.