Australia's Latitude Group opposed to paying ransom to cyber attack criminals

Latitude hackers make ransom demand

Latitude Financial Group has confirmed that hackers who stole the details of 14 million customers last month have demanded a ransom, but the company says it won’t pay up.

Latitude Financial refuses to pay cyber-attack ransom demands

Finance company Latitude Financial says it will not give in to ransom demands by cyber criminals behind one of Australia's largest cyber-attacks. Almost 8 million driver's licenses of Australian and New Zealand customers have been stolen including more than 6 million customer records. Passport numbers of more than 53,000 customers have also been compromised in the data breach. Customers are being asked to check their credit history and financia…

Latitude Financial vows not to pay ransom to hackers in wake of massive data breach

Lender says ‘no guarantee’ paying ransom would result in destruction of data and doing so ‘would only encourage further extortion attempts’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastConsumer lender Latitude Financial has vowed not to pay a ransom to those behind a massive cyber-attack that resulted in the largest-known data breach of an Australian financial i…

Latitude hack: Ransom demanded, company says it won't pay

Latitude said paying a ransom is out of the question, after millions of consumers' personal details were stolen in both Australia and NZ.

Latitude Financial refuses to pay ransom after millions of customer details hacked

About 7.9 million people had their driver’s licence details taken and about 53,000 passport numbers were stolen in the hack.

Latitude cyber-attack: Cybercriminals demand ransom

More than a million Kiwis' driver licences were exposed in the hack.