Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A hacking collective released the stolen data of 5.7 million Qantas Airlines customers, as well as those of more than 40 companies around the world on Saturday after the deadline for ransom passed.
Qantas said the data stolen includes customer names, email addresses and frequent-flyer numbers. The amount taken varies between customers, and some included home and business addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, gender and meal preferences.
The hackers from the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters collective targeted a call center in July that used a third-party customer service platform. Authorities investigating the attack have not released which other organizations were breached.
The airline said it has contacted customers to tell them what information of theirs had been released. The company is cooperating with Australian security agencies and has gotten a court injunction to prevent the stolen data from being "accessed, viewed, released, used, transmitted or published."
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