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Latitude Financial hack far worse than first reports: SBS Sinhala current affair on 28 March

Australia is under threat of cyber attack.

Australia is under threat of cyber attack. Source: SBS

Listen to the SBS Sinhala radio current affair feature on the latest updates of the cyber attack to Latitude financial with customer data stolen from around 14 million of its customers.


HIGHLIGHTS

  • The cyber hack on Latitude Financial is far worse than originally thought with customer data stolen from around 14 million of its customers in Australia and New Zealand.   (Latitude Financial issues and manages Australia's most popular credit cards, Gem Visa and Go Master cards.)
  • The buy-now-pay-later provider first announced the hack on March 16 and reported around 330,000 customers had their data accessed.

 


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