Qantas hack ends in theft of 6 million passengers’ private information

Australian airline large Qantas mentioned on Wednesday it skilled a knowledge breach that compromised the private data of not less than six million passengers.

The airline mentioned a cybercriminal focused one in every of its name facilities on June 30, and stole buyer information from its programs, together with names, electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers, dates of delivery and frequent flyer numbers.

Qantas is the newest airline hacked in latest weeks following a spate of breaches attributed to Scattered Spider, a collective of hackers and ways which are extremely adept at breaking into the networks of massive corporations. Canadian airline WestJet suffered a knowledge breach in June, which media studies have linked to Scattered Spider. Hawaiian Airways additionally mentioned final week it had suffered a knowledge breach.

Google’s safety unit Mandiant advised TechCrunch on Wednesday that it’s “too early to inform” if the Qantas hack was linked to Scattered Spider, however warned that airways must be on “excessive alert” for social engineering assaults.