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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...

The other benefit of doing your side trips “outside the system” is that you can use any airline, and choose the most direct options. Or indeed high speed rail, which is often the best choice in Central Europe.

Rather than messing too much with your OWA, I would do those as separately ticketed side trips, unrelated to the OWA. Treat it as if you were making some side trips by train. One thing for sure, aim to be back at Prague with at least 1 full day’s contingency before continuing your OWA itinerary.

Haha. I keep getting fake emails from Qantas telling me my FF points are actually worth something!

Who is suggesting that. As you say, they can’t control the weather. And it was a pretty significant weather event that left aircraft and crews out of position. Seems like a difficult situation, not of their making, that was handled pretty well. I put “fault” in quotes to differentiate it...

Couple of things to consider. It's not just financial institutions. It's anything. The whole ID theft thing is incremental. They get a bit of data here, find a service that is quite weak, log into that and get some more attributes on the individual, then move to more hardened services as...

That’s pretty good considering it was weather related and not the airline’s “fault”!

Article strongly reinforces the point that several of us made earlier: He told news.com.au the ‘date-of-birth’ being leaked was of greatest concern. “The kind of information that has been stolen, you use it everywhere … they define you. I can change my credit card number, it’s annoying and...

They may well still be in the “we don’t know what we don’t know” stage. I wouldn’t be surprised if they drip feed announcements of further breaches in coming days, such as additional data fields that were stolen, beyond those already announced, or more customers affected than originally thought.

I remember that case and it was terribly sad. Wasn't it a couple of Australian shock jocks behind it? In contrast this AFF thread, to its credit, doesn't appear to be going after the unfortunate sod who reportedly succumbed to the social engineering hack. Rather I am seeing calls for board and...

I had a phishing SMS attempt from a +63 number. Philippines! Likewise. I can't recall ringing them for several years. I've shifted most of our travel to Emirates and JAL.

Indeed. There's even a recognised term for this modus operandi: Social Hacking "Social hacking, also known as social engineering, refers to the manipulation of individuals to gain access to systems, information, or physical spaces. It relies on psychological manipulation and deception rather...

Sure, but as the poster I was responding to correctly observed: (my emphasis in bold) This is potentially damaging, as the data Qantas has leaked is enough for a bad actor to authenticate as "you" with other service providers. The genie is out of the bottle.