Australia’s Qantas Airways said on Sunday 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.
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Source: Reuters News
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