{"id":1856,"date":"2025-07-02T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:00:10","slug":"qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas hack results in theft of 6 million passengers\u2019 personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian airline giant Qantas said on Wednesday it experienced a data breach that compromised the personal information of at least six million passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The airline said a cybercriminal targeted one of its call centers on June 30, and stole customer data from its systems, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and frequent flyer numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qantas is the latest airline hacked in recent weeks following a spate of breaches attributed to Scattered Spider, a collective of hackers and tactics that are highly adept at breaking into the networks of big companies. Canadian airline WestJet suffered a data breach in June, which media reports have linked to Scattered Spider. Hawaiian Airlines also said last week it had suffered a data breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google&rsquo;s security unit Mandiant told TechCrunch on Wednesday that it is &ldquo;too early to tell&rdquo; if the Qantas hack was linked to Scattered Spider, but warned that airlines should be on &ldquo;high alert&rdquo; for social engineering attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Qantas hack results in theft of 6 million passengers&rsquo; personal data<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian airline giant Qantas said on Wednesday it experienced a data breach that compromised the personal information of at least six million passengers. The airline said a cybercriminal targeted one of its call centers on June 30, and stole customer data from its systems, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and frequent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Qantas hack results in theft of 6 million passengers\u2019 personal data&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}