QANTAS Cyber Incident

[Himeno]

The advantage of diverting unknown number calls to messagebank is that your phone doesn't even ring, so immediately there goes a distraction. When you look at the message and it's about 1 second long, hit delete.

Doing that still means that the call is "answered", telling the bot making the call that it is an active number. Letting it ring out doesn't confirm that the number is in use, leading to reduced scam calls.

 

[dairyfloss]

Doing that still means that the call is "answered", telling the bot making the call that it is an active number. Letting it ring out doesn't confirm that the number is in use, leading to reduced scam calls.

If it rings at all, isn’t the number proven active? Whether you leave it to ring out, hit the red button, or let your device/AI filtering manage it, it’s still an active number. A dead number won’t ring in the first place.

 

[RooFlyer]

If it rings at all, isn’t the number proven active? Whether you leave it to ring out, hit the red button, or let your device/AI filtering manage it, it’s still an active number. A dead number won’t ring in the first place.

Its more active if its answered, though.

 

[Daver6]

The advantage of diverting unknown number calls to messagebank is that your phone doesn't even ring, so immediately there goes a distraction. When you look at the message and it's about 1 second long, hit delete.

Exactly what I do with calls from your number

Now just to setup a rule that diverts unknown calls to your phone....

 

[Quickstatus]

Now just to setup a rule that diverts unknown calls to your phone.

Divert unknown calls to 131313?

 

[Haplo]

Divert unknown calls to 131313?

Classic response

 

[JohnM]

Exactly what I do with calls from your number

Now just to setup a rule that diverts unknown calls to your phone....

Just the sort of juvenile response one might expect from The Kid after he's been slurping a 2004 Gladstones without asking whether I would like to participate.

Those Gen X kids are so brutal and uncompromising - yet weirdly seem proud to identify as such aliens... How can that be? The Boomers' endless dilemma...

 

[Brissy1]

I received the 2nd Qantas email regarding being impacted.
Today, Telstra advised they had changed the Telstra ID for that email account - "We have detected a potential risk to your Telstra ID and believe your password may have been compromised. To protect your personal information, we have reset your password".
Doesn't specifically mention Qantas but one assumes it may be connected.

If there's a link in that email, don't use it.

 

[JohnM]

If there's a link in that email, don't use it.

Exactly.

Simple - ignore/delete.

I've been getting bombed by 'Telstra' emails for months.

 

[Be.au]

I received the 2nd Qantas email regarding being impacted.
Today, Telstra advised they had changed the Telstra ID for that email account - "We have detected a potential risk to your Telstra ID and believe your password may have been compromised. To protect your personal information, we have reset your password".
Doesn't specifically mention Qantas but one assumes it may be connected.

Did you use your Telstra password elsewhere?
They've been doing checks for publicly breached passwords for years, including when you visit and log in from the Telstra website.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1697032951261966611

Not Qantas related since there's no password with Qantas....

You can check if it was breached at nsw.gov.au/id-support-nsw/be-prepared/passwords if you really wanted (after all, it's now been reset by Telstra for you)

 

[dairyfloss]

It’s more active if it’s answered, though.

Oh definitely - an answered number is worth at least 1x as much as a number that only rings!