{"id":904616,"date":"2026-09-25T05:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904616\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:42:13","slug":"australian-trading-platform-stake-caught-in-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904616\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian trading platform Stake caught in data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian-based trading and investment platform Stake has been caught in a data breach after a third-party partner company was hacked. <\/p>\n<p>In an email to customers about midday on Friday, Stake said personal information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, tax status and tax country were compromised. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e57f277580bcee069bdead6cf4654f29a1d8336f4dbd5b7d673ddc71620889ce.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Australian-based trading and investment platform Stake has been caught in a data breach after a third-party partner was hacked.\u00a0Stake<\/p>\n<p>No trading accounts or portfolios, tax file numbers or bank accounts had been impacted and no unauthorised trading, transfers or withdrawals occurred. <\/p>\n<p>It comes after DriveWealth, Stake\u2019s partner that supports US trading and wallet functionality, suffered a data security breach. <\/p>\n<p>Stake apologised to customers and said it is working to understand the extent of the incident. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sincerely sorry for any concern this news has caused and apologise for any inconvenience caused as a result of the incident,\u201d the company said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStake takes the security of personal information seriously and has been working closely with DriveWealth to understand the impact of the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stake was founded in Sydney in 2017 to help Australians connect to Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founded by chief executive Matt Leibowitz, it has expanded into New Zealand and the United Kingdom and grown to over $6 billion in assets.<\/p>\n<p>It now has about 500,000 customers worldwide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian-based trading and investment platform Stake has been caught in a data breach after a third-party partner company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-904616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}