Qantas confirms cyber-attack exposed records of up to 6 million customers

The airline said the affected system has now been contained and its systems secured after the data breach

Qantas has suffered a major cyber-attack, potentially exposing the records of up to 6 million customers.

The airline said on Wednesday that the affected system had now been contained and its systems were secured. The system in question was a third-party platform used by the airline’s contact centre, which contains the records of 6 million customers.

The data includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. It did not contain credit card details, financial information or passport details.

Frequent flyer accounts were not compromised, neither were passwords, Pins or login details.