The federal government is holding to its position that it will not negotiate with cyber criminals or pay ransoms, after a hacking group followed through on its threat to release stolen Qantas data.

Qantas was targeted in July, when 40 global firms, linked to the cloud software giant Salesforce, had data stolen.

After the hackers' deadline for a ransom payment passed on Saturday, they released the data on the dark web.

Qantas customers' data leaked to dark web after cyber attack Photo shows A white plane wing with red tip

Hackers have released personal data from Qantas customers onto the dark web, following a cyber attack in July.

The attack involved the personal data of 5.7 million Qantas customers.

For most of its customers, the data stolen was limited to name, email address and

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