Latitude Financial Breaches Customer Data, Coles Warns

In an attempt to verify if the breach of Latitude Financial data was impacting Coles, the supermarket giant has confirmed it has. As part of the report, the company alleges that a cybercriminal gang has stolen the information used to issue previous Coles credit cards. 

Within the 14 million stolen customer records, there was information regarding 7.9 million driver’s licenses and about 53,000 passport numbers that were among the data stolen from the hack, which was detected last month. According to the company’s report, this data breach occurred in March 2023 and was reported to the regulators. 

As a result of the breach, Latitude Financial Services has notified Coles of the issue and is in the process of reaching out to all affected clients. 

The breach compromised thousands of passport numbers, along with personal information such as driver’s license numbers, names, addresses, dates of birth, and other personal information. This included thousands of driver’s license numbers. 

Despite this, the supermarket giant has not yet been informed of the number of customer accounts that have been affected by this incident. 

Despite Coles’ assertions, he has yet to release any further information reg

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