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Latitude says it is unlikely to pay a first-half dividend.

Latitude reveals hit from cyberattack, warns bad debts rising

The consumer finance business has taken a heavy hit from the cyberattack which exposed personal details of 7.9 million customers sourced from retailers such as Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Coles and Apple.

  • Clancy Yeates

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Harvey Norman customers who signed up for interest-free loans are among those impacted by the Latitude cyberattack.

Latitude hack triggers landmark privacy investigation

The Australian and New Zealand privacy commissioners have announced a joint investigation into the hack of Latitude Financial, which exposed the details of millions of consumer finance customers. 

  • Colin Kruger
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Latitude refuses to pay hackers’ ransom demand

Criminals who stole the data of 14 million consumers from Latitude Financial made a ransom demand to the consumer lender, which it is refusing to pay.

  • Colin Kruger
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil.

‘Consider what damage could be caused’: Government launches cyber ‘war games’ for major banks

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says recent attacks on Optus, Medibank and Latitude Financial are just the “tip of the iceberg” for damaging cyberattacks.

  • Matthew Knott
Meriton is the latest company to disclose a significant breach.

Private financial, health information exposed in Meriton data breach

The property giant contacted around 1900 staff and guests to inform them their data may have been accessed in the latest cyber incident involving an Australian company.

  • Tim Biggs
Latitude CEO Ahmed Fahour floated the consumer credit provider on the ASX less than two years ago.

Hacked: Latitude confirms details of 14 million consumers stolen

The data breach affects the driver’s licence numbers of 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand customers of retailers including Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, The Good Guys and Apple.

  • Colin Kruger
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Why corporate management is not being punished for cybercrime

Could it be that shareholders and consumers are becoming blasé about major data breaches?

  • Elizabeth Knight
Say nothing: Ahmed Fahour.

Some Latitude for leadership over this particular hack

Latitude Financial has become the latest company to be the victim of a cyberattack, but where’s boss Ahmed Fahour?

  • Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Latitude fined.

328,000 IDs feared stolen in ‘sophisticated’ Latitude Financial hack

Hacked consumer finance outfit Latitude Financial provides services to Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Apple and others.

  • Colin Kruger
ASIC has taken Latitude and the electronics retailer to task over one of the companies’ interest-free offers.

ASIC takes Harvey Norman, Latitude to court over interest-free offers

The regulator alleges that advertisements for interest-free payment methods didn’t give customers the full picture of the costs involved.

  • Emma Koehn

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