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Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped serving customers, while it tries to clean up an attack on its systems. The listed company last week called a halt to trade in its shares and filed [PDF] news that …

  1. jdoe.700101

    Given that they use AWS, it wouldn't surprise me if their "sophisticated" hacker stumbled across one or more open S3 buckets.

  2. DarthKegRaider

    Hardly Normal

    The big department store HN used Go, which is a latitude company. That would be a big customer dataset

  3. Medixstiff

    Well so far I've been done as an ex-Optus customer, a current Medibank customer - this is where the SPAM SMS messages and phone calls really started ramping up, luckily Android phones have a SPAM call alert system - and now as an ex-Latitude customer.

    It's getting to the stage of needing a full time credit reporting service along with the regular subscriptions for internet and mobile phones.

    As it is, I've brought iiNet up on their IronPort SPAM not quarantining emails form dodgy iiNet support scammers, even though the feature is turned on.

    I've also asked NAB why they don't currently offer 2FA through Microsoft or Google's authenticators, considering banks accounts are what most scammers are after.

  4. sanmigueelbeer

    Revealed: How hackers used DXC to get inside Latitude Financial

    Revealed: How hackers used DXC to get inside Latitude Financial

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