The personal lender said 103,000 customer ID documents and 225,000 customer records had been stolen by an attacker that hit some of its tech vendors.
Latitude said it has been hit by a “sophisticated and malicious cyberattack” that has resulted in around 103,000 identification documents and 225,000 customer records being stolen by the attacker.
It appears the attacker stole Latitude employee log-in credentials from one technology vendor and used them to log into two other service providers to steal customer files and ID documents. It said it was continuing to respond to the attack and “doing everything in its power to contain the incident and prevent the theft of further customer data”.a month before chief executive Ahmed Fahour is due to leave the struggling lenderLatitude said it had taken immediate action once it became aware of the incident, but the attacker was able to obtain Latitude employee login credentials before the incident was isolated.
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