Latitude Financial cyber-attack worse than first thought with 14m customer records stolen

Consumer lender says details taken include 7.9m driver’s licence numbers and 53,000 passport numbers

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Latitude Financial has revealed that 14m customer records – including driver’s licence numbers, passport numbers and financial statements – were stolen from its system in a cyber-attack that was far worse than the company initially reported.

The consumer lender, which offers personal loans and credit to customers shopping at stores including JB Hi-Fi, The Good Guys and Harvey Norman, said in a statement on Monday that some of the documents date back to at least 2005.

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