Qantas Data Breach Impacts Up to 6 Million Customers

Australian airline Qantas is notifying customers that their personal information may have been stolen in a cyberattack targeting one of its contact centers.

The incident, the country’s flag carrier says, was detected on June 30, after hackers accessed a third-party platform used by the call center.

While no Qantas systems were accessed and the airline’s operations have not been affected, the attackers managed to exfiltrate data from the compromised platform.

“There are 6 million customers that have service records on this platform. We are continuing to investigate the proportion of the data that has been stolen, though we expect it will be significant,” the company announced.

Potentially compromised information includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and frequent flyer numbers, it said. No credit card, financial, or passport information was stored on the platform.

“No frequent flyer accounts were compromised nor have passwords, PIN numbers or ...