Qantas customers on high alert for scams after attack
Qantas customers were told to be high -breaking for fraud after one of the worst cyber attacks in the months.
Qantas revealed a cyber event on a third -party platform used by the airline contact center, which revealed the details of six million customers.
Names, phone numbers, birth dates and e -mail addresses are among the data that is believed to be exposed to leakage.
However, Qantas assured customers to financial information, passport numbers, credit card details and frequent flying pin codes.
Since they can experience targeted identity hunting fraud, customers are asked to pass high alarms in the coming months.
A security expert says that the type of personal information can use in more cyber attacks.
Macquarie University Cyber Security Center Dali Kaafar Dali Kaafar, AAP told AAP, “Security, violations of names, E -mail addresses, telephone numbers, perhaps the most important birth dates and frequent brochure numbers,” he said.
Professor Kaafar said that details could lead to a more complete profile to make malicious actors more sensitive to individuals more sensitive to other cyber crime forms.
Qantas launched an investigation about the attack on Wednesday while customers escaped from the news.
“We continue to investigate the ratio of stolen data, but we expect it to be important,” he said in a statement on Wednesday.
CEO CEO Vanessa Hudson, Qantas’ National Cyber Security Coordinator, Australian Cyber Security Center and independent expert cyber security experts, he said.
A customer support line was established to provide the latest information to customers.
However, experts warn that the effect of the violation will be comprehensive.
Prof Kaafar, Considering the number of customers using the birth dates as a pin code, the allegations that the details of frequently flying entrances are not explained should be taken with “salt grain”.
“The Qantas application does not apply any multi -factor authentication, it is based on things like your surname, frequent brochure number and pin number,” he said.
“So some of these customers used the date of birth as a needle, and they are immediately at risk because they were compromised by these data.”
He warned customers to change their passwords and pins to prevent further damage.
Customers should have a high alarm for scammers who behave like Qantas in the coming months, as they appear after the optus attack that affects 10 million users.
“Frauds will mimic Qantas and lead to a more disaster type, Prof said Prof Kaafar.
Cyber security experts think that a group of young cyber -criminals living in the United States and the UK can be scattered spider.
The US FBI has recently warned that the group targeted the airline sector by imitating legitimate users to skip multi -factor authentication and access systems.
The responsible group has not been approved.
Qantas increased by about 3.6 percent on Wednesday to $ 10.38 on Wednesday.
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