{"id":19365,"date":"2025-07-06T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/qantas-attack-reveals-one-phone-call-is-all-it-takes-to-crack-cybersecuritys-weakest-link-humans\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:37:47","slug":"qantas-attack-reveals-one-phone-call-is-all-it-takes-to-crack-cybersecuritys-weakest-link-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/qantas-attack-reveals-one-phone-call-is-all-it-takes-to-crack-cybersecuritys-weakest-link-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas attack reveals one phone call is all it takes to crack cybersecurity\u2019s weakest link: humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other sectors also at risk from attacks, including healthcare, finance and telecommunications, expert warns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/jul\/06\/australia-news-live-victoria-police-charge-nsw-man-over-synagogue-fire-minns-government-confirm-fare-free-travel-days-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All it can take is a phone call. That\u2019s what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jul\/02\/qantas-confirms-cyber-attack-exposes-records-of-up-to-6-million-customers\">Qantas learned this week<\/a> when the personal information of up to 6 million customers was stolen by cybercriminals after attackers targeted an offshore IT call centre, enabling them to access a third-party system.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest in a series of cyber-attacks on large companies in Australia involving the personal information of millions of Australians, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/sep\/29\/optus-data-breach-everything-we-know-so-far-about-what-happened\">attack on Optus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/17\/medibank-hack-data-breach-federal-court-case\">Medibank<\/a> and, most recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/apr\/04\/australian-super-funds-compromised-cybersecurity-data-breach-hack\">Australia\u2019s $4t superannuation sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jul\/06\/qantas-attack-reveals-one-phone-call-is-all-it-takes-to-crack-cybersecuritys-weakest-link-humans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2728753a7fafb119cb9fabb5b20e81dac970aea\/319_0_4583_3667\/master\/4583.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0b0fe89bb43e203afc68b466b7503602\" title=\"Qantas attack reveals one phone call is all it takes to crack cybersecurity\u2019s weakest link: humans\" \/>Other sectors also at risk from attacks, including healthcare, finance and telecommunications, expert warns<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>All it can take is a phone call. That\u2019s what Qantas learned this week when the personal information of up to 6 million customers was stolen by cybercriminals after attackers targeted an offshore IT call centre, enabling them to access a third-party system.<br \/>\nIt is the latest in a series of cyber-attacks on large companies in Australia involving the personal information of millions of Australians, after the attack on Optus, Medibank and, most recently, Australia\u2019s $4t superannuation sector.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other sectors also at risk from attacks, including healthcare, finance and telecommunications, expert warns Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast All it can take is a phone call. That\u2019s what Qantas learned this week when the personal information of up to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/qantas-attack-reveals-one-phone-call-is-all-it-takes-to-crack-cybersecuritys-weakest-link-humans\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Qantas attack reveals one phone call is all it takes to crack cybersecurity\u2019s weakest link: humans<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}