QANTAS Cyber Incident

Yes, two "payment receipt" emails in my spam folder this morning. Addressed to "dear customer". . I've never been a customer of coinbase.
I got a "payment receipt" from them this morning. The phone number is 'listed' as a probable scam number on a quick google search.
 
Morning folks - I recently signed up to the Equifax Protect service using the token I received from QF, and found it interesting that under the Identity Watch area, the dark web monitoring found the activity related to Qantas from October, but it is not the full suite of data that QF told me they had lost control of.

QF said everything was lost to the hackers, but Equifax only found Name, Address / Location, Phone Number and an Avatar (?) in the dark web data. Checking through all the historic events across my e-mail addresses (including a leak at TAP Portugal, and Adobe), and there is nothing worse than this as well. No DOBs found, for example.

Have others who are looking at this found the same? Or are you seeing a closer match of elements to the Qantas leak on Equifax Protect?

Cheers,
Matt.
 
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I got a QF email asking me if I was still looking for fares to ADL. These emails are common and expected from several sources including airlines, hotels and hire cars. The problem is that I haven't been looking for anything ADL related except the scorecard from last years pink ball test v IND.

I've changed my PIN but am comfortable the 2FA will stop any unauthorised activity.
 
If a hacker emails you, and you hit unsubscribe... (sorry to be the one) but you just told them it is a valid email address that someone reads and cares about 😥

Back in October I reported I was receiving emails from JAL and Club Med.I have never used either of their services or subscribed to them. At the time I attributed the emails to the Qantas data leak
Well , a message from Club Med revealed the source.I was wrong it was not from the Qantas leak. I found out today the emails have come via my subscription to the Melbourne airport newsletter.
I signed up with Melb airport as I am usually transiting through there at least once a month, sometimes more and it keeps me up to date with the many changes happening at the airport, road closures , parking ( which is an absolute mess at present ) etc.
 
How many airlines hacked does this make? Ive lost count must be near double digits now.

I got an email from Iberia at the weekend to say I was impacted... but notes the affected data was "name and surname, email address and loyalty card identification number", which, when compared to Qantas, is not even worth frowning over
 
I got an email from Iberia at the weekend to say I was impacted... but notes the affected data was "name and surname, email address and loyalty card identification number", which, when compared to Qantas, is not even worth frowning over

An update from another site claims “all the customer data” (everything) held by Iberia has been captured.

Whether that is correct I guess will come out eventually.
 
An update from another site claims “all the customer data” (everything) held by Iberia has been captured.

Whether that is correct I guess will come out eventually.
Indeed. Even including any FF number of another OW airline you might have given to Iberia for the purposes of mileage credit!
 

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