A court has thrown a non-publication order over the lawyers acting for Qantas out of fear of retribution from hackers who launched a cyber attack which affected nearly six million customers.

Qantas launched legal action in the NSW Supreme Court to stop the compromised data being accessed or released following the cyber attack in June.

The accounts of 5.7 million Qantas customers were compromised in a data breach at one of the airline’s call centres.

The data stolen included the business and residential addresses attached to 1.3 million accounts, the phone numbers of 900,000 customers, and the dates of birth of a further 1.1 million.

In July, Qantas was granted an interim injunction in the NSW Supreme Court in an attempt to stop the data from being accessed or released.

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