Qantas Airways said that it was one of the companies whose customer data had been published by cybercriminals after it was stolen by a hacker in a July breach of a database containing the personal information of the airline’s customers.

The airline said in July that more than a million customers had sensitive details such as phone numbers, birth dates or home addresses accessed in one of Australia’s biggest cyber breaches in years. Another four million customers had just their name and email address taken during the hack, it said at the time.

The July breach represented Australia’s most high-profile cyberattack since telecommunications giant Optus and health insurer Medibank were hit in 2022, incidents that prompted mandatory cyber resilience laws.

On Sunday, October 12, Qantas said in a statement that it was “one of a number of companies globally that has had data released by cyber criminals following the airline’s cyber incident in early July, where customer data was stolen via a third party platform”.

“With the help of specialist cyber security experts, we are investigating what data was part of the release,” it said.

Qantas info update can be found here

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