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Personal details of up to 14 million Australians have been caught up in the cyber-attack on financial services company Latitude Financial, now one of the ...

It claims to have compromised about 130 organisations linked to GoAnywhere, threatening to publish the purportedly stolen files unless the groups pay a financial ransom. Also caught in the Latitude hack are 53,000 passport numbers and 6.1 million records dating back to 2005 — including names, phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth. Personal details of up to 14 million Australians have been caught up in the cyber-attack on financial services company Latitude Financial that is now one of the largest in the nation’s history.

Consumer finance provider Latitude Financial has said that cyber-criminals have leaked the personal data of around 14 million customers, in what is being ...

The firm said that it has not detected any cyberattack on its systems since March 16. “We are committed to working closely with impacted customers and applicants to minimise the risk and disruption to them, including reimbursing the cost if they choose to replace their ID document. On Monday, it acknowledged that the cyberattack was far worse than originally thought, and updated the figure to 14 million.

Of the 7.9 million driver licence numbers of Australian and New Zealand customers and applicants to have been stolen in the attack, 3.2 million were supplied in ...

We are also committed to a full review of what has occurred,” said Fahour who retires from his position on Friday. Separately, an additional 6.1 million records dating to at least 2005 were stolen, with the vast majority before 2005. The hacking is not the fault of anyone with a credit transaction with latitude and the likes of Harvey Norman. Latitude provides consumer finance services to Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, The Good Guys, Apple and recently signed up David Jones. Latitude and its retailer customers have not made any comment on the fate of the loans and other credit products advanced to shoppers – especially the interest free loans for the likes of Harvey Norman which had stringent requirements for the person taking out the credit. Of the 7.9 million driver licence numbers of Australian and New Zealand customers and applicants to have been stolen in the attack, 3.2 million were supplied in the last decade.

Latitude Financial Services has confirmed that up to 14 million Australian and New Zealand customers are impacted by the latest data breach.

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With confirmation that millions of personal data files were stolen in Latitude Financial's cyber hack, customers past and present are growing tired of the ...

states that "entities must also take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify the personal information they hold once it is no longer needed for any purpose for which it may be used or disclosed under the APPs". "The fact that this basic question was not asked, and that the data of many former and prospective customers was kept, indicates a significant governance deficit." Latitude said the hackers then obtained the login detail of a Latitude employee, which was then used to steal customer records from two of Latitude's service providers. "This seems alarmingly similar to the way that Latitude is so far indicating that it was breached." "The other issue is that there is sometimes pressure from sales teams to keep data as a source of prospects. "I think part of the problem is that it's cheaper to keep data than to cleanse it properly," he said. "This requirement does not apply where the personal information is contained in a 'Commonwealth record' or where the entity is required by law or a court/tribunal order to retain the personal information." "They took over the company that my credit card was with in 2016, from the looks of the records," she said. Ms Birchall has had the misfortune of being involved in another data breach with a company she was a previous customer of, but said there was a substantial difference in communication strategies. Apart from being frustrated at a lack of communication from Latitude, Mr Johnston said he was also concerned about his data being held by the company for several years. Current and former customers of Latitude Financial are frustrated at the company's lack of communication and have questioned its data retention practices after the non-bank lender confirmed millions of its customers' personal records dating back to 2005 had been stolen in a cyber attack earlier this month. Amanda-Jo Birchall is a former customer of GE Money and Latitude, and shares Mr Johnston's frustration that the company has not contacted her about the breach.

The cyber-attack that has paralysed the operations of Latitude Financial for almost two weeks has evolved into the largest breach of customer privacy in the ...

has asked Latitude to clarify whether the personal information of subscribers to the Coles Myer card program had been compromised, but had not received a response before the publication’s deadline. about the potential fallout from the cyber-attack, a Coles spokesperson confirmed that the retailer had been seeking information from Latitude about the data breach. Accounting for normal annual cardholder attrition and acquisition, the card could have been used by up to 3 million customers of Myer and Coles in the eight years to 2013. While most of the concern regarding the impact of the cyber-attack has focused on the customers of existing retail partners of Latitude such as Harvey Norman, it appears the incident might pose a bigger threat to customers of former GE Capital partners such as Coles and Myer. In a filing to the ASX, Latitude said that approximately 7.9 million driver licence numbers had been stolen from its systems and that only 40 per cent of those had been provided to the company in the last decade. The cyber-attack that has paralysed the operations of Latitude Financial for almost two weeks has evolved into the largest breach of customer privacy in the local financial services industry, with historical customers of the company most exposed to the security failure.

The growing backlash against lax corporate cybersecurity in Australia has hit Latitude Financial with a class action being launched following its recent ...

“We were recently contacted by a ransomware group who claim they have illegally obtained a limited number of Crown files. The Government shares the frustration and concern experienced by many citizens who fear their data may now have been stolen on multiple occasions,” she said. “It’s clear that existing privacy protections are ineffective and must be changed. Organisations have had more than enough time to take action on their own, and have chosen not to. This includes the driver’s licence numbers of 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand customers. The OAIC is formally investigating

Just a day after announcing the severity of its March 16 data breach, Latitude Financial is already staring down the barrel of a potential class action.

“Improved cyber security practises from organisations have presented a significant technical and organisational overhead to threat actors, and the benefits of using it are rapidly declining.” At this time, the AFP has found no evidence that the Latitude data has been leaked. But on 27 March, Latitude Financial announced that the hack affected over 14 million customer records, making it the largest data breach yet for an Australian company.