Scattered Spider Suspected in Qantas Data Breach

Adolescent Hacking Group Switches Focus to New Sector Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) , David Perera (@daveperera) • July 2, 2025

The band of English-speaking adolescent hackers collectively tracked as Scattered Spider is focusing on the airlines - and possibly preparing a pivot to the oil and gas sector.

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Australian airliner Qantas divulged Wednesday that hackers breached its call center to access a third-party system containing customer data. The breach impacted six million customers, exposing customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. Qantas has not confirmed being a target of Scattered Spider, but the attack has the hallmarks of a Scattered Spider operation - including the social engineering attack on a call center.

The company said it detected the breach on Monday and that it took the impacted systems offline. The incident did not expose payment details or ...