Qantas data leak: Personal data of millions of airline customers published online after ransom threat

Australian airline passengers are on high alert after hackers leaked the personal information of up to 5.7 million Qantas customers.

Qantas confirmed on Sunday it was among several global companies that had data released by cyber criminals.

“With the help of specialist cyber security experts, we are investigating what data was part of the release,” a company spokesperson said.

The data was stolen in a cyber attack in early July from Qantas’ third-party platform provider Salesforce.

Records were stolen by Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters from 39 major companies, including Qantas, Disney, Toyota and FedEx.

The group was holding customers’ data and threatened to release it at 3pm on Saturday AEDT unless Salesforce paid an undisclosed ransom, which it refused to do.

The Qantas data included ful