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A bizarre suggestion in response to a data breach. Helpful for those in the witness protection program though!

It seems to have turned into "Drip Feed Friday"

It also allows creation of very convincing phishing emails purporting to be from Qantas. The fact that QF includes your FF#, Tier, Points and SC in marketing mails, used to be a nice way to quickly assess if a QF email was legit, since "who else would have that info?". Well now the bad actors...

It could be worse. At least it's not an: "Emerging local Rap group"

Damn they are in full drip-feed mode now. They soften you up with announcements making it sound not so bad. Now a week later we are seeing a bunch of full bingo cards.

Haha. Same sentiment here. I'm not a fan of live music in cases where it's not the whole point of visiting some place/venue etc. If I'm specifically going somewhere to see a show or act, awesome! But if you're going to a restaurant or something, then a bunch of dudes start setting up with...

Precisely. This seems to be the aspect that many have missed. The dataset can be used to perform enrichment against other data. Fairly easy with a readily available tool like Alteryx or similar. From 6 million records, even if the just 1% of these can be enriched against other datasets to the...

Agree there are other ways to validate customers, but they do need to store DOB in their systems. As mentioned it's an ICAO requirement. Furthermore if the airline services the EU, which QF does, they must retain this traveller data for 5 years.

It's an ICAO requirement. (International Civil Aviation Organization)

Let me try to explain why these rules exist under the Corporations Act. They apply to all listed companies and are necessary for the integrity of the financial system. Pretty much everyone's superannuation is dependent on this being heavily regulated. Here's a hypothetical. Imagine the...

No idea. Figured you were looking for suggestions and alternatives. Are there some other options you’ve looked into and dismissed? Via Honkers? Tokyo even with JAL?

Is it an option to use a LCC like Scoot to get to SIN and then pick up the BA flight from there to SYD? I can see BKK-SIN is around $67 on Scoot, which seems pretty reasonable. Have you checked if MH has anything via KL? Try the multi city tool - I can see some options.

A very convincing phishing email could be constructed from that info!

No one remotely suggested that. It's not simultaneous. I would encourage you you read up on the requirements of the Continuous Disclosure rules. Everyone has to be able to receive the announcement simultaneously - including those who aren't involved in the breach, and may not even be...

That's something they cannot be faulted on. They are a listed company and subject to the "continuous disclosure" provisions of the corporations act. From Google: "Listed companies in Australia, like those on the ASX, are subject to continuous disclosure rules. These rules, found in the...

If it were inbound I wouldn't worry, but given it's outbound D to I, that's not something I'd be happy with. If that SYD to BNE flight is delayed, cancelled, consolidated etc, it's potentially going to mess up 2 long hauls. Yes they will still get you there, eventually. But this may well mess...

Sure, with the vegans it's literally the first thing they tell you! :) But think kosher meals. Worst case: a list of names, phone, email, home address (if bag redelivered) and ordered a kosher meal. Definitely a cause for concern given recent events in Melbourne and elsewhere. The meal choice...

You'd hope, so, but the "drip feed" thing has been a hallmark of responses to previous major breaches. It's almost as if it's a standard crisis/PR management tactic From Google: OPTUS [Drip feed] refers to the criticism leveled at Optus for the way it released information about the 2022 data...

And there's the drip feed as mentioned earlier. Addresses, Phone Numbers, Gender etc Anyone thinking there will be at least one further "wait there's more" email?

Yes, this exactly. We have seen over the years many cases on this forum. User rings up to add just one more flight to an OWA. Call centre stuffs it up, or it doesn't re-ticket quick enough and the whole thing cancels out. Then it's a fight to get the award seats back. This is the right word...