Part of ABC’s write-up today: What do we know about who has been hit by the cyber attack? The consumer finance company announced on Monday: 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand drivers licence numbers have been stolen about 53,000 passport numbers were stolen less than 100 customers had a monthly financial statement stolen An additional 6.1 million…
Category: Financial Sector
Latitude Financial data breach widens as fears over copies of driver’s licences grow
Trevor Long reports: Latitude Financial has today released a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) which confirms fears foreshadowed two days ago that the data breach is far worse than first anticipated. When the company first reported the breach, the number of affected customers was around 330,000, however today a statement says “regrettably our review has…
Latitude Financial hacked as 300,000 customer identification documents stolen
7News reports what sounds like a serious breach: Financial lender, Latitude Finance, has warned customers of a major cyberattack in which more than 300,000 customer identification documents were stolen. A spokesperson for the company said unusual activity was detected on its systems over the last few days, and it appeared the company’s records had been hacked. They…
HDFC Bank Data Breach Exposed on Internet? Hacker Leaks Sensitive Information
Siddharth Shankar reports that HDFC Bank has denied any reports of a data leak or breach, despite the fact that data allegedly from them is being made freely available on a popular forum: One of the largest private sector banks in India, HDFC Bank, has allegedly fallen victim to a data breach. A user on…
Piles of confidential ANZ bank documents found ‘floating down the street’ after they were carelessly dumped in a skip bin on a busy street
Brett Lackey reports: Piles of confidential documents containing the personal details of ANZ customers have been found thrown in a skip bin on a busy street by someone walking by. Scott Collins, 26, was walking near Armadale Central Shopping Centre, in Perth’s south-east, when he noticed the papers overflowing from the bins which were being used…
National Credit Union Administration Finalizes 72-Hour Cyber Incident Reporting Rule
Alexander Boyd and Colin H. Black of Polsinelli PC write: On February 16, 2023, the National Credit Union Administration (“NCUA”) unanimously approved a final rule that requires a federally-insured credit union to report “reportable cyber incidents” to the NCUA as soon as possible, and in no event later than 72 hours after the credit union…