The theft of data of 14 million customers of a credit company in Australia and New Zealand

Hacking – Hackers have taken employee login credentials to steal information

the personal information Almost 14 million customers Australian And NZ From the consumer finance company Latitude Financial at the hands of hackers. The company, which reported the information on Monday, had already alerted the incident earlier in March, initially citing the theft of data from 330,000 customers.

But on Monday, the company said that according to an internal study, the breach is much larger — roughly the equivalent of half the state’s two. “We realize today’s announcement will be a traumatic event for many of our customers and we deeply apologize,” the company said.

An open investigation

According to the company, 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand driver’s licenses have been stolen, along with 53,000 passport numbers. Also compromised were 6.1 million records dating back to at least 2005 and containing information such as names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. the pirate Taking employee login credentials to steal information.

Ahmed Faour, Managing Director of Latitude Financial, said that the company is doing everything it can to improve the platforms affected by the attack and is putting in place measures (…] Read more in 20 minutes

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