The personal data of 5.7 million Qantas customers has been released on the dark web by hackers, after a ransom date came and went yesterday.

Qantas was one of 40 companies caught up in the hack, alongside the likes of Toyota, Disney and IKEA when the hacker group Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters stole almost 1 billion records of customer data from cloud technology company Salesforce in July.

A threat to release the details had been made by the group earlier this week

"If Salesforce does not engage with us to resolve this, we will completely target each and every individual customers (sic) of theirs listed below, failure to comply will result in massive consequences," the statement from the hackers said.

In response, Salesforce insisted it would not "engage, negotiate with, or pay any extor

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