Australian airline Qantas says millions of customer data leaks online

• The main cyberattacks hit world businesses through Salesforce.
• Sensitive customer elements exposed, without financial data.
• World technology and air giants aimed at breach.
  

Sydney: Australian airline Qantas said Sunday that data from 5.7 million customers stolen in an important cyberettack had been shared online, a leakage that affects dozens of businesses.

Disney, Google, IKEA, Toyota, McDonald’s and Airlines Airlines Air France and KLM have also been reported to have closed data in a salesforce software company targeted software, with information now being kept in ransom.

SalesForce said this month “was aware of recent blackmail efforts”.

Qantas confirmed in July that hackers had targeted one of his customers’ communication centers, violating a computers system used by a third party known to be salesforce.

They secured access to sensitive information such as customer names, email addresses, phone numbers and birthdays, said Australian Blue-Chip.

No further violations have been carried out since the company is working with Australia’s security services.

“Qantas is one of the many companies worldwide, which have been released by cyber criminals following the airline’s incident in early July, where customer data was stolen through a third -party platform,” the company said in a statement.

Most of the data leaking were names, email addresses and frequent leaf details, the company said.

However, some of the data included the “business or home address of customers, date of birth, phone number, gender and meal preferences”.

“Credit card details, personal financial information or passport details were not affected,” Qantas said.

He also said that he had received a legal order with the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where the business is headquartered, to prevent stolen data from “accessing, projected, released, transferred or published”.

The expert in cyberspace Troy Hunt said AFP that he would do anything to prevent data from spreading.

“It’s honestly ridiculous,” he said.

“Obviously he doesn’t stop at all criminals anywhere, and really has no effect on people outside Australia.”

In response to questions about leakage, Google Technological Giant noted AFP In a August statement stating that one of the corporate sales servers had been aimed. Did not confirm whether the data had been leaked.

“Google responded to the activity, conducted an impact analysis and completed email alerts to potentially influenced businesses,” said Melanie Lombardi, head of Google Cloud Security Communications.

Cyber ​​security analysts have linked hack to people with ties to a cyberattack alliance called scattered Lapsus $.

The research team of Unit 42 said in a note that the team had “confirmed the responsibility for the siege of the SalesForce customers’ renters as part of a coordinated attempt to steal the data and keep it for ransom”.

The hackers had reportedly set the deadline for October 10 to pay Ransom.

‘Older tricks in the book’

The hackers stole the sensitive data using a social engineering technique, referring to a tactic of handling the victims, pretending to be a representative of the company or other credible person, experts said.

Last month, the FBI issued a warning of such attacks aimed at salesforce.

The organization said the hackers they put in as workers informed customer support employees to give them access to sensitive data.

“They were very effective,” Expert Hunt said.

“And he has not used sophisticated technical holdings … They have really taken advantage of the older tricks in the books.”

The hacks of data from Australia’s largest airline comes as a series of important cyberattacks in the country has raised concerns about the protection of personal data.

Qantas apologized last year after an error with its mobile application exposes certain passenger names and travel details.

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