Major Australian financial services firm Latitude Financial Services has issued an updated breach notification warning noting that 14 million customers in Australia and New Zealand had their data compromised as a result of a cyberattack, significantly higher than the 328,000 individuals initially reported to have been impacted by the data breach, BleepingComputer reports.
Nearly 7.9 million driver's license numbers and almost 6.1 million customer records including full names, birthdates, addresses, and telephone numbers as well as about 53,000 passport numbers have been stolen during the data breach, according to Latitude, which noted the forensic review into the incident is still underway.
Individuals who have been affected could seek reimbursements for replacing their stolen files and have been urged to track their credit reports for potential malicious activity.
"It is hugely disappointing that such a significant number of additional customers and applicants have been affected by this incident. We apologize unreservedly," said Latitude CEO Ahmed Fahour.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission imposed $196 million in total fines to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon for engaging in the unlawful sale of customers' location information to data aggregators, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
BleepingComputer reports that U.S. nationally licensed debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions had information from more than 1.95 million individuals across the country compromised following a data breach in February.
U.S. independent record label Empire Distribution, which has worked with Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and 50 Cent, had its sensitive data exposed as a result of an environment file misconfiguration, Cybernews reports.
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