Digital payments firm Latitude Group Holdings and intellectual property services provider IPH Ltd. reported data breaches on Thursday, joining a host of other Australian firms targeted by hackers in recent months.
Some of Australia’s largest companies have reported data breaches since September last year, including Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., and health insurer Medibank Private Ltd.
Latitude said personal information, including copies of drivers’ licenses and customer records, of around 328,000 customers held by two service providers were stolen.
IPH detected unauthorized access to document management systems, which handle administrative documents, and some client documents and correspondence, at its head office and two member firms.
After the massive cyber attack on Medibank in November, Australian authorities tabled a new cyber-policing model in a re-energized push to nab cyber crime syndicates that had recently affected millions of Australians.
The effort included a partnership between the federal police and a government agency that intercepts electronic communication from foreign countries to police such criminal activity.
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