Qantas Airways was ordered to pay $59 million for illegally sacking almost 2,000 ground workers during the pandemic, in a court judgment that included sharp criticism of the airline’s culture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/18/companies/qantas-fined-firing-pandemic/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #qantas #airlines #australia#covid19
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ShinyHunters sent Google an extortion demand; Shiny comments on current activities
In a long chat yesterday, Shiny touched on Google, France, Australia and the Qantas injunction, and the NSA's alleged attempts at voice analysis:
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Joel Michael
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"No doubt hoping to mitigate worries about exposing physical addresses, the airline said its investigations showed that many of these were years old and potentially outdated,"
Why were you still storing them, then?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/qantas_begins_telling_customers_data
"No doubt hoping to mitigate worries about exposing physical addresses, the airline said its investigations showed that many of these were years old and potentially outdated,"
Why were you still storing them, then?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/qantas_begins_telling_customers_data
¡Abbie!
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"Bringing all the functions in house, however, may not solve the issue. For, in most cases, the breaches were caused by human error or, in many cases, a momentary lapse in judgement."
There is no such thing as "human error". There are only system design flaws that make this kind of mistake possible.
If the only thing keeping millions of people's personal information secure is whether or not some low level staffer had enough coffee this morning, your system design is bad and you should feel bad.
"Bringing all the functions in house, however, may not solve the issue. For, in most cases, the breaches were caused by human error or, in many cases, a momentary lapse in judgement."
There is no such thing as "human error". There are only system design flaws that make this kind of mistake possible.
If the only thing keeping millions of people's personal information secure is whether or not some low level staffer had enough coffee this morning, your system design is bad and you should feel bad.
Kathy Reid
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Another day, another data breach!
How could #Qantas be trusted with our personal data? This is a systemic failure on multiple levels. We need privacy law reform and far greater accountability.
https://securitybrief.com.au/story/qantas-breach-sparks-calls-for-stricter-data-security-laws
Another day, another data breach!
How could #Qantas be trusted with our personal data? This is a systemic failure on multiple levels. We need privacy law reform and far greater accountability.
https://securitybrief.com.au/story/qantas-breach-sparks-calls-for-stricter-data-security-laws
Qantas says 6 million of its customer accounts were accessed in a cyber attack, the biggest such breach in Australia in years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/02/companies/australia-qantas-customer-hack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #qantas #australia #airlines #hacking #personalinformation