GLOBAL CYBER LOSS: Qantas breach reaches 5.7 million as hackers target airline network connecting Google, Air France, KLM

Hackers posted the personal information of more than 5.7 million Qantas customers on the dark web in what cybersecurity experts described as one of the largest data breaches in Australian aviation history.

As part of a breach that affected dozens of businesses, Qantas announced on Sunday that customer data had been taken in a significant cyber attack this year and posted online.

Names, phone numbers, email addresses, itineraries and partial payment information were allegedly included in the compromised database, which exposed clients of loyalty programs and corporate accounts connected to Google, Toyota, Air France, KLM and IKEA.

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“Qantas is one of a number of global companies whose data was released by cybercriminals following the airline’s cyber incident in early July, in which customer data was stolen via a third-party platform,” the company said in a statement.

“With the help of cybersecurity experts, we are investigating what data was part of the release,” he added.

The company also stated that it had obtained a court order from the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where its headquarters are located, “to prevent the stolen data from being accessed, viewed, released, used, transmitted or published by anyone, including third parties.”