Security News > 2023 > March > Latitude cyberattack leads to data theft at two service providers
Latitude Financial Services has disclosed a data breach after suffering a cyberattack, causing the company to shut down internal and customer-facing systems.
Latitude is one of Australia's largest personal loans provider and the country's largest non-bank consumer credit lender.
Latitude provides major Australian retailers like Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, David Jones, and The Good Guys with "Buy now, pay later" schemes.
These credentials were then used for logging into two of the company's service providers to steal customer data.
"As of today, Latitude understands that approximately 103,000 identification documents, more than 97% of which are copies of drivers' licenses, were stolen from the first service provider," explains Latitude.
Latitude has not clarified if the records from the second provider contain similar data as the first provider, i.e., ID and driver's licenses or other information.