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Posted: 2023-03-20 02:05:46

The amount of customer data stolen from Australian company Latitude Financial may grow, with the non-bank lender confirming that drivers licenses, passports and Medicare numbers have already been hacked.

The company went public about the cyber attack last Thursday.

It said then that about 330,000 customers were thought to have had their personal information stolen. 

Today it reiterated that the vast majority of data thought to have been stolen were copies of licences and their numbers.

However, it said about 5 per cent of what had been confirmed stolen was copies of passports and Medicare cards.

The company said on Monday the scope of what was thought to have been stolen might grow as it continued to review "non-customer originating platforms and historical customer information".

 "We are likely to uncover more stolen information affecting both current and past Latitude customers and applicants," it said.

"Latitude encourages our customers to remain vigilant. We will never contact customers requesting their passwords."

"The attack on Latitude is now the subject of an investigation by the Australian Federal Police."

It said also the situation "remains active".

UNSW Institute for Cybersecurity's Associate Professor Rob Nicholls said this was "even more concerning".

"It suggests that Latitude's service providers have not really addressed the problem," he told ABC News. 

"It also increases the likelihood of a hybrid attack that is both ransom and theft.

"If the intruders are still in the system, they have an opportunity to encrypt files."

The non-bank lender offers short-term loans, credit cards and travel cards, and buy now pay later services with major retailers, including Apple, Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi.

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