Data breach affecting 14 million customers dents Australia’s cyber security ambitions

Estimates that 7.9 million driver licence numbers and 53,000 passport numbers were stolen in the breach.

Up to 14 million customer records have been compromised in one of the biggest breaches in Australia’s history. The breach affects driver’s licenses, passports and financial statements of customers in Australia and New Zealand who have accounts with consumer lender Latitude Financial.

This will be an embarrassment to the Australian government,

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