Harcourts Melbourne City real estate agency advises customers of data breach
Harcourts real estate have suffered a data breach, potentially exposing customers’ names, addresses and bank details.
According to an email sent to customers of Harcourts Melbourne City, the company’s rental property data base had been accessed on October 14.
Harcourts maintain they only became aware of the attack on October 24.
The real estate company is blaming its service provider Stafflink for the incident, who have denied the allegations and said Harcourts’ poor security protocols are responsible for the breach.
Harcourts said information such as names, addresses, copies of signatures, photo identification and bank details may have been visible to hackers though at this point it is not known how many people may have been impacted by the breach.
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