Tabby WilsonBBC News, Sydney
Reuters
The airline says there will be no impact to Qantas’ operations
Qantas is contacting customers after a cyber attack targeted their third-party customer service platform.
On 30 June, the Australian airline detected “unusual activity” on a platform used by its contact centre to store the data of six million people, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers.
Upon detection of the breach, Qantas took “immediate steps and contained the system”, according to a statement.
The company is still investigating the full extent of the breach, but says it is expecting the proportion of data stolen to be “significant”.
It has assured the public that passport details, credit card details and personal financial information were not held in the breached system, and no frequent flyer accounts, passwords or PIN numbers have be
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