Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on Qantas taking action after recent data breach

Qantas has filed court action in a bid to stop the compromised data of millions of customers being accessed or released following a recent cyber attack.

The accounts of 5.7 million Qantas customers were compromised in a data breach at the end of June, with millions of phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth caught up in the leak.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says the airline is trying to negotiate with the hackers before the information gets shared on the dark web.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind
for New Zealand business. A man's been charged over Melbourne's
synagogue attack. Oli Peterson's six pr PERS Live presented with us.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now, hey Ollie, remember of last year that our listeners
will remember this is a synagogue in Melbourne. A twenty
year old man from Victoria and Williamstown was arrested yesterday
by police. And have a go at this rap sheet Ryan.
This particular car was stolen but was also used in
a couple of other incidents in Victoria, including an attack
on a nightclub which was arson and a shooting on

(00:34):
the same evening as that arson attack. Now this bloke
is going to be before the court sooner rather than later,
and if he is charged with terrorism offenses, which he
may very well be, and he's convicted of that, he
could be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
But quite a brazen theft it was of this particular
golf because it has been seen in a lot of
CCTV footage in even incidence back in May of this

(00:57):
year and they've been able to change the number play
it's on a number of occasions. So police have obviously
got a big rap sheet. They'll make some pretty major
allegations during this court case. But a twenty year old
man has been arrested over the theft of this car
in relation to that fire bombing of the synagogue in
Melbourne late last year.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Okay, interesting, And what's happening with the Elbow and the Panda?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Isn't this funny? It's pandemonium, isn't it. He's visiting his
friend the panda and talking up the relationship between Australia
and China. Look, he's been there for a long time,
five days has Prime Minister Albanizi, and he started to
really invoke the same symbols of that of the former
Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam when he appeared there on
the Great Wall yesterday. But I mean, it's really interesting,

(01:42):
isn't it. He's doing this sort of victory lap around China,
talking up the importance of trade and our economic relationship.
And this is at the same time that the White
House is demanding that if we are to sign up
to and continue with Orcus, that Australia is signing up
to a US plan to defend Taiwan. So this has
all the these geopolitical implications. It's rather fascinating at the

(02:03):
moment to see I guess how much sucking up Anthony
Abernezi is doing in China at the moment when all
of this is playing out over in the US and
the future of wucers. So I think if it was
up to him, we'd basically be Switzerland of the South
Pacific and we'd be friends with everybody.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well that's another way where some in this country would
like us to go. Hey, quantas a couple of quite
a few key he's actually got caught up in this
data hack. What's the latest there?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, so did I. I think they pretty much have all
of the details now, so I've got to watch every
email and phone call that comes in. But Coitus has
gone to courts, and the reason they have gone to
court is they are now trying to obtain an interim
injunction in the Supreme Courts to protect people who've been
caught up in the breach. So the ideas of putting
in this injunction would mean if the hackers were to

(02:47):
release any of our data Ryan that they could then
be held criminally responsible. I mean they should be anyway, right,
they pinched our data. But this is just going through
the legal processes. They're supposedly negotiating off air at the
moment with the hacker about trying to recover that data.
Whether or not that will be released somewhere on the
dark web, and whether or not it's probably already will
be released somewhere on the dark web, we don't know

(03:08):
at this stage.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
OLLI, thank you for that. Olli Peterson, six PR Perth
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Speaker 2 (03:13):
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