A general view of indoor diners at a restaurant on Chapel Street in Melbourne, Australia on Oct. 22, 2021. (Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images) The hack of Australian finance firm, Latitude Financial, is worse than initially thought.
In mid-March, the consumer finance provider estimated around 328,000 customers had their data stolen by hackers, now that number has ballooned to over 14 million, according to an investor statement.
Latitude Group confirmed on March 27 that 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand driver’s licence numbers were stolen, of which 3.2 million (around 40 percent) were provided in the last 10 years.
Another 6.1 million records dating back to 2005 were stolen including names, addresses, telephone numbers, and dates of birth—of which 5.7 million (around 94 percent) were provided before 2013.The company revealed 53,000 passport numbers had also been lost in the data hack, and less than 100 had their monthly financial statements taken as well.Latitude said […]
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