Qantas Airways has officially confirmed that in a major data breach, over 5 million customers’ data were exposed. The company found suspicious activity on June 30 and quickly isolated the affected system to prevent further damage.
According to the company, the compromised data includes details like names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, frequent flyer numbers, and in some cases, meal preferences. Fortunately, no credit card details, passport numbers, or account passwords were exposed.
Qantas says there is no evidence that any of the stolen data has been released so far, but the company is working with cybersecurity experts to monitor the situation and protect customers.
Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson apologized for the incident and said the airline has put additional security measures in place. The company is contacting affected customers to let them know what information was involved and is offering support. Besides, customers are being urged to watch out for scams and to verify any messages claiming to be from Qantas.
This isn’t the only case. Recently, M&S admitted that hackers first broke into their system by pretending to be someone else, a trick called an “impersonation attack.” This later led to a ransomware attack by a group called DragonForce. M&S chairman Archie Norman shared this during a UK Parliament meeting about cyberattacks on retailers. He didn’t give details but said the hackers faked being one of M&S’s 50,000 workers to fool a third party into resetting a password.
Apart from that, there’s a new malware in the Web3 world that is targeting crypto users through fake Firefox extensions, and the threat is far from over. According to Yuval Ronen, there’s a large-scale operation going on that involves over 40 malicious Firefox extensions that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallet tools.
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