Qantas Says Flyers' Data Targeted in ‘Significant' Cyberattack
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Qantas Airways Ltd. expects that a 'significant' amount of customer data was stolen by a cyberattack targeting one of its contact centers.
Australia's biggest airline is investigating how criminals gained access to a third-party platform used by the call center that held the service records of some six million customers, it said in a statement Wednesday.
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