Latitude

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Some Latitude for leadership over this particular hack (The Age)

When Optus, then Medibank fell victim to cyber warfare last year, the companies' respective chief executives, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin and David Koczkar, ...

Previously he worked as a reporter for Crikey, covering federal politics from the Canberra Press Gallery.Connect via Sounds reasonable, but there seems to be more to the matter than that. [Sign up here](/link/follow-20170101-p57ogt). [Noel Towell](/by/noel-towell-hven2)is Economics Editor for The AgeConnect via [Kishor Napier-Raman](/by/kishor-napier-raman-p5369q)is a CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. “The office occupancy survey was born out of the pandemic necessity to have a regular and easy to understand method of monitoring the health of our capital city CBDs,” a spokesman said. The businessman best known for his $5.6 million salary as boss of Australia Post is just weeks away from departing Latitude and we reckon a cyberattack is hardly the kind of poo-sandwich anyone would like to be served for their last meal in the job.

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Latitude Financial Scrambles to Contain Large Data Breach ... (Australian Cyber Security Magazine)

ASX-listed entity Latitude Financial went into a trading halt announcing it was the target of a “sophisticated and malicious cyberattack”.

“We are working with relevant authorities and have engaged cyber security specialists as we do everything in our power to contain the attack,” the letter says. “This incident is a reminder for everyone in the community to be vigilant about their personal cyber-security.” “This attack highlights (yet again) the need for Australia to become far better at protecting our citizens and financial system.” In that case, the hackers obtained employee and customer details, including copies of passports, credit cards, and loans data. In the two instances, stolen employee login details and third-party vendors were in the mix. “The attacker appears to have used employee login credentials to steal personal information that was held by two other service providers,” said a letter to customers from COO Andrew Walduck.

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Latitude Group, parent company of Genoapay and Gem, hit by cyber ... (Newshub)

Digital payments firm Latitude Group Holdings, which operates in New Zealand as Genoapay and Gem, reported a data breach on Thursday, joining a host of ...

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'No access to funds': Aussies screwed over (NEWS.com.au)

Hundreds of thousands of customers at an Australian financial company could be caught up in a cyber security breach, with some already finding signs they ...

One person who contacted news.com.au had been involved in the Optus and Medibank breaches, and is also a customer at Latitude. “Latitude is responding to a cyber-attack that has resulted in the theft of some customer data. Despite having sufficient funds to pay the account, no payments have been processed successfully. “I have attempted to make payments through BPAY and direct debit. “I have not been able to make a payment on my credit card for the past week,” one woman told news.com.au. For further information and updates please visit our [dedicated help page],” it reads. “Latitude apologises to the impacted customers and is taking immediate steps to contact them,” Latitude said when it announced the cyber attack to the ASX in a statement. It took several hours for Latitude to notify all its customers of the cyber security breach, and they are still yet to pinpoint and warn the 300,000 people with details that have been compromised. “The marketing team from latitude don’t seem to have a problem sending emails,” one customer quipped to news.com.au. He/she has already made purchases over $1500.” On Thursday morning, the ASX-listed lending company revealed that the details of 328,000 customers had been breached in a “sophisticated and malicious cyber attack”. Customers at a financial firm called Latitude are growing increasingly distressed as they wait to see if they are among the unlucky few with information that has been stolen by cyber criminals.

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Latitiude Financial cyberattack exposes the data of more than ... (Stuff.co.nz)

Company that runs Genoapay, Gem Visa and GO Mastercard has been hit by a cyber attack, potentially putting thousands of Kiwi customers at risk.

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Latitude cyberattack leads to data theft at two service providers (BleepingComputer)

Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) has published a notice on its website today informing that it has suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in the ...

These credentials were then used for logging into two of the company's service providers to steal customer data. The company has shut down several internal and customer-facing systems while responding to the incident and says that the effort to contain the attack and prevent breaches or further customer data is still underway. 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.

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Latitude Financial customers reveal the telltale texts that suggested ... (Daily Mail)

Latitude customers have revealed the telltale signs alerting them to scammers before the personal finance company announced a massive cyber-attack on ...

The company disclosed that about 103,000 identification documents were stolen from the first unnamed service provider. LatitudePay allowed customers to spread the purchase cost of products over 10 weekly interest-free payments. Regrettably, the attack has resulted in the theft of some customer data.' 'Are we going to be notified soon if our details have been stolen? Should we be changing our passwords? In a statement to Daily Mail Australia, Latitude Financial said it had 'experienced a data theft as the result of what appears to be a sophisticated and malicious cyber-attack'. The customer said they were stunned as to why they weren't asked for a verification code for a transaction of that size, as was 'normal for online purchases'. Latitude Financial said it had 'experienced a data theft as the result of what appears to be a sophisticated and malicious cyber-attack' The customer said he understood Meta to be the parent company of Facebook, and suggested the hacker may have used their card to 'pay for advertisements'. Customers of a major Australian personal finance company, Latitude Financial, have detailed how they have been targeted by hackers as the company admits losing the personal information of more than 300,000 clients in a massive cyberattack. Brisbane woman Tanya Moran said the first sign her 65-year-old mother Sharron had been targeted by scammers was a bizarre text message bombardment in the middle of the night (pictured) Telltale texts that warned customers they were victims of a massive cyberattack - as one of Australia's top buy-now, pay-later companies admits the details of up to 328,000 people have been stolen

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Latitude customers seek answers on security breach (ABC News)

Millions of people who've used Latitude Financial to buy products are still in the dark about whether their data has been stolen, with little help or ...

Latitude Financial Services Data Breach Impacts 300000 Customers (SecurityWeek)

Latitude Financial Services says the personal information of 300000 customers was stolen in a cyberattack.

Related: Most of these documents are copies of drivers’ licenses.

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Latitude customers are furious: some have had data hacked before ... (ABC News)

As well as being a Latitude Financial customer, Courtney was also caught out by the Medibank and Optus cyber-attacks. She says companies need to do more ...

It said the attack started from a major vendor the company uses, which the ABC understands was essentially a back-end infrastructure provider. The government worker is a customer of telco Optus and a former one of the private health insurer Medibank, which were also both hacked last year. Is it just name and address and phone number? Latitude Financial did not reply to questions from ABC News about whether its hackers have asked for a ransom. "I feel left by the side [by Latitude]. Latitude sent many customers an email about the breach on Thursday evening. There is the hassle of potentially getting his driver's licence re-issued, changing bank accounts, or re-applying for credit cards. "There is that risk of the credit card information, combined with the personalised information, could allow credit card fraud on a very large scale in a very short period of time," he said. "And in the financial services sector, it's a critical part of doing business." "We have these companies saying to us: we are the victim of this cyber-attack," she says. Or is it name, address credit card? "It's a slap in the face," she said.

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More than 3000 customers' data stolen in Latitude Financial ... (Mortgage Professional America)

The Melbourne-based Australian finance company operated Genoapay, Gem Visa, and GO Mastercard as well as 28° Global, Infinity Rewards, and Low Rate credit cards ...

“Our focus in these early stages is to provide agencies who have experienced a breach with From the other service provider, about 225,000 customer records were stolen. “The attacker appears to have used the employee login credentials to steal personal information that was held by two other service providers,” it said.

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