Qantas customers are finding out if their personal information was exposed in a cyber attack, as they are warned to be on high alert for scams. The airline revealed a cyber incident on a third-party platform used by the airline's contact centre that exposed the details of six million customers.

Australian airline Qantas said that a hacker made off with a trove of customers’ personal data including passenger names, emails, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers

A cyber hacker broke into a database containing the personal information of millions of customers, Qantas said, in Australia's biggest breach in years and a setback for an airline rebuilding trust after a reputational crisis.