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business reporters Kate Ainsworth and Emilia Terzon

Latitude Financial customers frustrated at lack of communication after millions of personal records stolen in cyber attack

Amanda-Jo Birchall is one of millions of Australians who have been affected by Latitude's cyber attack. (ABC News: Daniel Irvine)

Current and former customers of Latitude Financial are frustrated at the company's lack of communication and have questioned its data retention practices after the non-bank lender confirmed millions of its customers' personal records dating back to 2005 had been stolen in a cyber attack earlier this month.

Latitude Financial disclosed on March 16 that more than 330,000 personal records had been impacted due to a cyber attack, but days later the company warned that the breach could widen.

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