Australian airline Giant Qantas said on Wednesday that it suffered a data break This compromised the personal information of at least six million passengers.
The airline said a cyber criminal was intended for one of its phone centers on June 30, and stole data from customers from their systems, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent leaflets.
Qantas is the latest airline hacked in recent weeks after some breaks assigned to a scattered spidera group of hackers and tactics Very skilled at entry into the networks of large companies. Canadian airline Westjet suffered a data break in June, which Media Reports tied to a scattered spider. Hawaiian Airlines also said that last week it suffered a data break.
Google’s security unit told Techcrunch on Wednesday that it is “too early to say” if the Qantas hack was attached to a scattered spider, but warned that airlines must be “high alert” for social engineering attacks.
