Qantas Says ‘Significant’ Cyberattack Targeted Flyers’ Data (1)

Qantas Airways Ltd.expects that a “significant” amount of customer data was stolen by a cyberattack targeting one of its contact centers.

Australia’s biggest airline is investigating how criminals gained access to a third-party platform used by the call center that held the service records of some six million customers, it said in a statement Wednesday.

Qantas joins a growing list of airlines suffering hacking breaches in recent weeks, including Alaska Air Group Inc.’s Hawaiian Airlines and Canada’s WestJet Airlines Ltd.

The latest incident comes days after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation warnedthat notorious cyber crime ...