Qantas has revealed that 5.7 million customers were influenced by a huge cyber attack that was affected by the same hackers targeting Marks & Spencer.
The Australian Airlines shared details of how the incident occurred this week, and hackers access customer data by endangering one of their call centers in Manila in the Philippines.
According to the FBI, the hacked group, known as spreading spider, is more than the UK and the United States, and has launched an airline attack in recent weeks after successful violations of telecommunications, finances, games, hospitality and retail.
In a statement updated to customers, Qantas said the phone numbers were stolen, as well as email addresses, addresses, date of birth, sex and in some cases food preferences.
The company added that no details of the payment or passport information were lost, while the current evidence suggests that none of the personal data has been published by hackers.
“Our absolute focus has been to understand what data has been compromised for each of the 5.7 million customers affected and sharing it as soon as possible,” said Vanessa Hudson, CEO of Qantas.
“Since the accident, we have taken a number of additional cyber security measures to protect our customers’ data more and continue to investigate what has happened.”
Forensic investigations into the incident are currently underway.
Updates from Qantas while four people said to be associated with scattered spider were arrested in England.
The three men and one woman were arrested for ransom, money laundering and crimes related to the law on computers.
“The fact that arrests were quickly associated with a ransomware campaign-often regarded as a” anonymous “crime, so the perpetrators behind the borders of the nations that encourage them and implicitly encourage them. ” IndependentHuman
“Sharing information and working in this space is better than ever before, and I think this is a big part of the story of success here.”
