Hundreds of thousands of customer records stolen from lender Latitude in cyber-attack

The company, which provides credit to JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman shoppers, says 100,000 ID documents and 225,000 customer records stolen

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Consumer lender Latitude Financial has been hit by a “sophisticated and malicious cyber-attack” that has resulted in the theft of more than 100,000 identification documents and 225,000 customer records.

The non-bank lender, which offers personal loans and credit to customers shopping at such stores as JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman, said in a statement to the market on Thursday that most of the identification documents were copies of driver’s licences.

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