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Supermarket giant Coles has informed customers of its financial services business that their personal information may have been stolen as part of the Latitude Financial cyber attack.

The non-bank lender says it will not pay a ransom to criminals who stole personal identification documents from customers.

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ASX-listed lender Latitude Financial Group has been hit by a cyber-attack believed to have originated from a major vendor of the company.

The non-bank lender has released its 1H23 results for the period ended 30 June 2023, which revealed the impact of its cyber breach earlier this year.

The non-bank has confirmed it is has stopped onboarding new customers as a major cyber attack remains active.

Around 7.9 million driver’s licence numbers and hundreds of thousands of passport numbers have been stolen in the major cyber attack, Latitude has revealed.