Australian airline giant Qantas said on Wednesday It experienced a data breech This compromised the personal information of at least six million passengers.
The airline stated that a cyber criminal targeted one of its call center on 30 June, and stole the customer data from its system, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, date of birth and frequent flyer numbers.
Qantas is the latest airline hacked in recent weeks Responsible for scattered spiderHackers and strategy have a collective Extremely adept at breaking the network of big companiesCanadian airline Westjet faced a data violation in June, which Media Reports Is connected to the scattered spider. Hawaiian Airlines also said that it had to face a data breech last week.
Google’s security unit compulsory on Wednesday told Techcrunch that it is “to tell very quickly” whether Qantas hack was associated with the scattered spider, but warned that the airlines should be on “high alert” for social engineering attacks.
