[Janelle Ward]

Another day, another malicious cyber attack, this time on the company behind a buy now, pay later scheme used by major Australian retailers including Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, David Jones and The Good Guys.

More than 300,000 personal identity documents have been stolen in what it says is a “sophisticated and malicious cyber attack”.

The company told the ASX it had detected unusual activity on its systems over the “last few days”.

Documents stolen include:

* 103,000 identity documents, with 97 per cent of those being copies of drivers’ licences from one provider

* 225,000 customer records from the second service provider.

Latitude says it’s “doing everything in its power to contain the incident and prevent the theft of further customer data” and is contacting those customers affected by the attack.

[Cosmo]

I’m not affected by this but I hope after all the recent warnings the court throws the book at Latitude. Three key questions, why does a homewares trader need to collect driving licence details, why does Latitude need to keep it after they’ve checked the validity and why do they need to store it online instead of off-line if there’s a need to store it at all?
This is shear lazy, negligent incompetence and they should pay the price.

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