Largest non-bank lender in Australia warns of a data breach

**Firstmac data breach — Embargo leak:** Firstmac notified customers that an unauthorised party accessed part of its IT systems and the Embargo extortion group subsequently published over 500 GB of alleged Firstmac data, exposing sensitive PII (full names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, DOB), external bank account details and driver’s licence numbers; the firm says accounts are secure, has strengthened authentication controls, and is offering IDCare protection. Attribution to Embargo is claimed but not fully proven and no ransomware encryptor samples have been identified, so the incident is characterized primarily as a large-scale data leak and extortion event.