QANTAS Cyber Incident

[Pushka]

Vietnam airlines took all my personal details. No tier with them though. Just the usual details that ID me. I received an alert from Nord VPN that these details were on the dark web now. But not about Qantas but hey ho, Qantas banned Nord VPN from informing me.

 

[TheCollecter]

This is a rant I have had with people, but can’t see in my history that I’ve ranted in this forum… if I have please berate me and I will delete. Start rant:

2 years ago I took 2 of my kids to NZ for Christmas… see Grandma, see Queenstown, kinda cool.

At online check-in on leaving MEL Qantas asked for passport numbers, DOBs, and full names as shown in passport… standard stuff they have to have.

A week later and we are checking in to leave Queenstown and Qantas ask for the same details again!!! I was furious as I had to do 3 people, and they had been given all this info already! The voice of reason, my eldest, suggested maybe they don’t want to hold that info in case they get hacked.

We are told that no passport numbers were stolen in the hack. Piss off a (petty) customer big time, but save millions of people being impacted. Plus I have a pretty smart kid (not inherited from me, I swear).

 

[kookaburra75]

Hopefully this example may be used to set the level of any fine $29million - the amount of users' details is roughly the same at 6.6 million

Capita fined £14m for cyber-attack which affected millions

The outsourcing giant accepted liability, after the data watchdog said they failed to protect client data.

www.bbc.com

 

[Be.au]

Hopefully this example may be used to set the level of any fine $29million - the amount of users' details is roughly the same at 6.6 million

Capita fined £14m for cyber-attack which affected millions

The outsourcing giant accepted liability, after the data watchdog said they failed to protect client data.

www.bbc.com

Yes, watch whatever happens with the Optus case - Australian Information Commissioner takes civil penalty action against Optus (plus the penalties have increased since then)

The Federal Court can impose a civil penalty of up to $2.22 million for each contravention. The Australian Information Commissioner alleges one contravention for each of the 9.5 million individuals whose privacy it alleges Optus seriously interfered with.