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Aussie-based finance app Stake caught in data breach: What you need to know

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Belling, A. (2026, September 25). Aussie-based finance app Stake caught in data breach: What you need to know. Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16159363/stake-data-breach-Australia-finance-app.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

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Daily Mail · collected 2026-09-25 · by Alasdair Belling

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Aussie-based finance app Stake experienced a data breach affecting thousands of customers when its third-party partner DriveWealth was hacked. Stake confirmed that personal information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, tax status, and tax country were compromised but emphasized that no trading accounts, portfolios, bank accounts, or financial transactions were impacted. The platform, which has nearly 500,000 customers worldwide with $6 billion in assets, apologized for the incident and assured users of its commitment to information security.
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Stake, an Australian-based trading and investment platform with nearly 500,000 global users and approximately $6 billion in managed assets, experienced a data breach due to a wider cyberattack on its third-party partner DriveWealth. The breach compromised personal information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, tax status, and country for some customers. However, Stake confirmed that trading accounts, portfolios, tax file numbers, and bank accounts remained unaffected, with no unauthorized transactions occurring. The company apologized to its users for the inconvenience caused and emphasized its commitment to data security.

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Australians DriveWealth OpenAI Origin Stake

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Stake ORG · 6× Australians NORP · 3× Origin ORG · 3× DriveWealth ORG · 2× News Corp ORG · 2× OpenAI ORG · 2× Origin Energy ORG · 2× Daily Mail ORG · 1× Google ORG · 1× Sydney GPE · 1×

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Thousands of Australians have had their data compromised after locally-based trading and investment platform Stake was caught up in a data breach This week the Albanese government has been struggling to contain the political fallout from revelations that an OpenAI agent infiltrated the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-25
🔮 The alleged hacker - who went by the name Edison Walthour - said no data would be published but provided insight on how they carried out the incident.

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- See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Thousands of Australians have had their data compromised after trading and investment platform Stake was caught up in a major data breach. asserted
Stake → see → breach
Stake confirmed on Friday a number of customer details had been compromised, including personal information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, tax status and tax country. asserted
number → confirm → names
‘We are sincerely sorry for any concern this news has caused and apologise for any inconvenience caused as a result of the incident,’ Stake said in an email to customers. asserted
Stake → cause → customers
‘Stake takes the security of personal information seriously and has been working closely with DriveWealth to understand the impact of the incident. asserted
Stake → take → incident
It confirmed that no trading accounts, portfolios, tax file numbers or bank accounts had been impacted, and no unauthorised trading, transfers or withdrawals occurred. asserted
trading → confirm → ?
Founded in Sydney in 2017 to help Australians get a leg-up on Wall Street, the platform now has nearly 500,000 customers worldwide and holds an estimated $6bn in assets. asserted
platform → found → assets
Thousands of Australians have had their data compromised after locally-based trading and investment platform Stake was caught up in a data breach This week the Albanese government has been struggling to contain the political fallout from revelations that an OpenAI agent infiltrated the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18. asserted
agent → have → June
The portal hosted aggregate data about health spending and drug subsidies and is popular with researchers and academics. asserted
portal → host → researchers
No personal information had been accessed, the government said. asserted
government → access → ?
OpenAI said in a statement it had reviewed activity involving several Australian government departments and discovered ‘our models took actions we did not intend’. asserted
we → say → actions
In July over 1 million Origin Energy customers were caught up in a massive data breach. asserted
customers → catch → breach
Details including names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and account information were all potentially viewed. asserted
Details → include → birth
The company, which has nearly five million customers, deemed the initial threat not credible mainly because it did not see any personal information. asserted
it → have → information
Media outlets including News Corp and the ABC reported being contacted by parties who claimed to have hacked into Origin's systems three weeks earlier to access customer data. asserted
who → include → data
Stake confirmed on Friday that a number of customer details had been compromised Origin said it was not until after reports by News Corp on July 22 regarding a potential breach that the company received information proving the threats were credible. asserted
threats → confirm → information
The alleged hacker - who went by the name Edison Walthour - said no data would be published but provided insight on how they carried out the incident. asserted
they → go → incident
'We took our site down, we already settled everything with Origin Energy privately and no data will be leaked,' they said. asserted
they → take → Energy
'[Origin had] no company VPN, very simple passwords, everything is so readable and predictable they don't care at all. asserted
they → have → VPN
'School projects have better security sometimes'. asserted
projects → have → security
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