Qantas Breach Comprises Data of Up to 6 Million Customers

Danni Santana has spent nine years as an editor and business journalist covering industries like sports, retail, restaurants, and now personal finance. He is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. His biggest loves outside of the newsroom include, running, cooking, playing video games and collecting sneakers.

Australian airline Qantas has disclosed a cyberattack potentially comprising the data of 6 million customers. 

Cybercriminals gained access to customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates and frequent flyer numbers via a third-party platform used by a company call center, it said. In the wrong hands, this data could lead to phishing attacks orchestrated by bad actors and eventually identity theft or fraud.

Credit card details, personal financial information and passport details are not held in the breached system, according to ...