Latitude Monetary says a hack of its methods detected final week was worse than it initially thought.
The patron finance firm mentioned on Wednesday its assessment had “uncovered additional proof of large-scale info theft affecting prospects (previous and current) and candidates throughout Australia and New Zealand.”
Its groups have been “working urgently” to determine the overall variety of prospects and candidates affected and the kind of private info that was stolen, Latitude mentioned.
It had beforehand estimated that 330,000 prospects and candidates had been affected by the cybercrime, with 96 % having a duplicate of their driver’s license or their driver’s license quantity stolen. Round 4 % had their passport information stolen and fewer than one % had Medicare numbers taken.
Latitude shares resumed buying and selling on Wednesday for the primary time because the hack. At 11.48am AEDT they have been down 9.eight per cent to a nine-month low of $1.0875.
– AAP
