{"id":257416,"date":"2025-07-27T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/qantas-given-72-hour-deadline-hacker-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:15:34","slug":"qantas-was-given-a-72-hour-deadline-by-hacker-during-this-months-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=257416","title":{"rendered":"Qantas Was Given A 72-Hour Deadline By Hacker During This Month&#8217;s Cyber Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the flag carrier of Australia, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254825\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/qantas\/\"  >Qantas<\/a><\/span>, was <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/qantas-cyber-attack\/\" >hit with a cyber attack<\/a>. The attack, which claimed to have obtained passenger data of millions of Qantas Frequent Flyer members, demanded that Qantas reply within 72 hours. The documents, shared in an exclusive by <a href=\"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/2025\/07\/qantas-obtains-injunction-to-prevent-hacked-datas-release\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Australian Aviation<\/a>, outline that the cybercriminals used AI to impersonate Qantas staff and coerced a Manila-based call-centre employee to share the information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous hacking collective targets Qantas, demanding a response within three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,273,3435,13478,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-frequent-flyer-program","category-hack","category-qantas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257417,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257416\/revisions\/257417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}