{"id":5298,"date":"2023-03-27T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T16:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:19:05","slug":"7-9-million-drivers-license-numbers-have-been-stolen-in-data-breaches-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/brusselsindependent\/7-9-million-drivers-license-numbers-have-been-stolen-in-data-breaches-in-australia\/2023\/03\/27\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"7.9 million driver’s license numbers have been stolen in data breaches in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

CANBERRA (Reuters\/ Dr. Majid Khan)<\/span>\u00a0Australian<\/span> consumer<\/span> finance<\/span> firm<\/span> Latitude<\/span> Group<\/span> Holdings<\/span> Ltd<\/span> (LFS.AX)<\/span> said<\/span> hackers<\/span> stole<\/span> nearly<\/span> 8<\/span> million<\/span> Australian<\/span> and<\/span> New<\/span> Zealand<\/span> drivers<\/span> licence<\/span> numbers<\/span> in<\/span> one<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> country’s<\/span> biggest<\/span> confirmed<\/span> data<\/span> breaches,<\/span> sending<\/span> its<\/span> shares<\/span> lower.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> provider<\/span> of<\/span> credit<\/span> cards<\/span> and<\/span> personal<\/span> loans<\/span> for<\/span> some<\/span> of<\/span> Australia’s<\/span> biggest<\/span> retailers<\/span> added<\/span> the<\/span> cyber<\/span> intruder<\/span> also<\/span> took<\/span> about<\/span> 53,000<\/span> passport<\/span> numbers<\/span> and<\/span> more<\/span> than<\/span> 6<\/span> million<\/span> customer<\/span> records,<\/span> mostly<\/span> from<\/span> between<\/span> 2005<\/span> and<\/span> 2013,<\/span> in<\/span> what<\/span> it<\/span> called<\/span> a<\/span> “distressing<\/span> development”.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> update<\/span> showed<\/span> the<\/span> attack<\/span> which<\/span> temporarily<\/span> froze<\/span> Latitude’s<\/span> operations<\/span> affected<\/span> far<\/span> more<\/span> customers<\/span> than<\/span> first<\/span> disclosed<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> company<\/span> on<\/span> March<\/span> 16,<\/span> when<\/span> it<\/span> said<\/span> criminals<\/span> took<\/span> 103,000<\/span> licenses.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>It<\/span> now<\/span> ranks<\/span> among<\/span> the<\/span> country’s<\/span> biggest<\/span> data<\/span> thefts,<\/span> behind<\/span> only<\/span> Singapore<\/span> Telecommunications<\/span> Ltd-owned<\/span> (STEL.SI)<\/span> No.<\/span> 2<\/span> telco<\/span> Optus<\/span> and<\/span> medical<\/span> insurer<\/span> Medibank<\/span> Private<\/span> Ltd<\/span> (MPL.AX)<\/span> which<\/span> each<\/span> said<\/span> details<\/span> of<\/span> about<\/span> 10<\/span> million<\/span> customer<\/span> accounts<\/span> were<\/span> compromised<\/span> in<\/span> attacks<\/span> late<\/span> last<\/span> year.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Since<\/span> a<\/span> wave<\/span> of<\/span> data<\/span> breaches<\/span> began<\/span> with<\/span> Optus,<\/span> the<\/span> Australian<\/span> government<\/span> has<\/span> increased<\/span> penalties<\/span> for<\/span> companies<\/span> which<\/span> fail<\/span> to<\/span> adequately<\/span> protect<\/span> customer<\/span> data<\/span> as<\/span> part<\/span> of<\/span> an<\/span> overhaul<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> national<\/span> cyber<\/span> security<\/span> strategy<\/span> still<\/span> underway.<\/span> \u201cCyber-attacks<\/span> are<\/span> an<\/span> increasing<\/span> threat<\/span> and<\/span> are<\/span> expected<\/span> to<\/span> become<\/span> part<\/span> of<\/span> our<\/span> lives<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> years<\/span> to<\/span> come.<\/span> ,\u201d<\/span> said<\/span> Cybersecurity<\/span> Minister<\/span> Claire<\/span> O\u2019Neill.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>“Our<\/span> position<\/span> remains<\/span> that<\/span> no<\/span> customer<\/span> should<\/span> bear<\/span> the<\/span> cost<\/span> of<\/span> a<\/span> data<\/span> breach,”<\/span> she<\/span> added,<\/span> noting<\/span> that<\/span> Latitude<\/span> is<\/span> working<\/span> with<\/span> authorities<\/span> to<\/span> manage<\/span> the<\/span> impact<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> attack.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Latitude’s<\/span> shares<\/span> fell<\/span> 2.5%<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> flat<\/span> overall<\/span> market<\/span> (AXJO)<\/span> as<\/span> investors<\/span> feared<\/span> the<\/span> company’s<\/span> exposure<\/span> could<\/span> be<\/span> worse<\/span> than<\/span> previously<\/span> thought.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>\u201cEvery<\/span> time<\/span> we<\/span> hear<\/span> about<\/span> a<\/span> data<\/span> breach,<\/span> investors<\/span> tend<\/span> to<\/span> assume<\/span> the<\/span> worst,\u201d<\/span> said<\/span> Matt<\/span> Simpson,<\/span> senior<\/span> market<\/span> analyst<\/span> at<\/span> Citi<\/span> Index.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Latitude<\/span> said<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> statement<\/span> that<\/span> its<\/span> insurance<\/span> covers<\/span> cybersecurity<\/span> risks.<\/span> \u201cWe<\/span> are<\/span> remediating<\/span> the<\/span> platforms<\/span> affected<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> attack<\/span> and<\/span> implementing<\/span> additional<\/span> security<\/span> monitoring<\/span> to<\/span> resume<\/span> operations<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> coming<\/span> days,\u201d<\/span> CEO<\/span> Ahmed<\/span> Fahour<\/span> said<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> statement.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CANBERRA (Reuters\/ Dr. Majid Khan)\u00a0Australian consumer finance firm Latitude Group Holdings Ltd (LFS.AX) said hackers stole nearly 8 million Australian and New Zealand drivers licence numbers in one of the country’s biggest confirmed data breaches, sending its shares lower. The provider of credit cards and personal loans for some of Australia’s biggest retailers added the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[1,1566,1575,2403],"tags":[2794,2795,2796,2797,2798,2799,2800,2801,2802,2803,2804,2805,2806,1574,2807,2792,2808,2793,2809],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/download-5-1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5309,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}