{"id":678280,"date":"2025-07-02T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:22:09","slug":"qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas hack results in theft of 6 million passengers&#8217; personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian airline giant Qantas said on Wednesday <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qantasnewsroom.com.au\/media-releases\/qantas-cyber-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">it experienced a data breach<\/a> 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 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/06\/27\/aviation-transportation-sector-cyberattacks-scattered-spider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">media<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/scattered-spider-hackers-shift-focus-to-aviation-transportation-firms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> 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\u2019s security unit Mandiant told TechCrunch on Wednesday that it is \u201ctoo early to tell\u201d if the Qantas hack was linked to Scattered Spider, but warned that airlines should be on \u201chigh alert\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> engineering attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/02\/qantas-hack-results-in-theft-of-6-million-passengers-personal-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/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","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}