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business reporters Kate Ainsworth and Emilia Terzon

Up to 8 million Latitude Financial customers in Australia and New Zealand believed to have data stolen in cyber attack

Latitude now says the data of 7.9 million people has been stolen. (ABC News: John Gunn)

Latitude Financial has confirmed that the cyber hack on its systems this month was far worse than originally thought, with around 8 million people's data believed to be stolen.

The company first announced the hack on March 16 and said it believed the data of around 330,000 people had been accessed.

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