Privacy watchdog clears Qantas in data breach inquiry

Privacy watchdog clears Qantas in data breach inquiry

Save (0) Please login to bookmarkClose Username or Email Address Password Remember Me The Office of the Australian Information Commission will not take action against Qantas over a 2025 data breach that affected more than five million customers. Subscribe to Lawyerly to access this article.Already a subscriber? Username or Email Address Password Remember Me Lost your password? The post Privacy watchdog clear…

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has revealed a tech support scam was the cause of the massive 2025 data breach at Australian airline Qantas and found the carrier didn’t breach its privacy obligations despite leaking personally identifiable information for 5.7 million customers. The Commissioner reached that conclusion, and a decision not to open a formal privacy probe, in a report published today. Qantas has previously admitted the incident was…

AU: Regulator’s preliminary findings did not indicate Qantas breached privacy obligations

Vlad Constantinescu reports that the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has determined that although the Qantas data breach of 2025 resulted in 5.67 million customer records being compromised and leaked, the regulator’s preliminary inquiry did not indicate that Qantas was likely to have breached the country’s privacy rules. The attack began when an attacker... Source

Qantas cleared of wrongdoing in cyber incident report

The final report into last year's Qantas hack, which affected approximately 5 million Australians, has found that there was nothing more Qantas could have done to prevent the incident.

Qantas Did Everything "Right" — And Got Breached Anyway

A vishing call to an overseas contact center agent. A fake IT ticket. A default setting nobody thought to lock down. That's all it took to expose the personal data of roughly 5 million Australians — and now the country's privacy regulator has decided Qantas isn't to blame for it. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) closed the book this week on its year-long preliminary inquiry into the June 2025 Qantas data breach, and t…