Australia's Qantas says 6 million customer accounts accessed in cyber hack


A member of the ground staff drives past a group of Qantas planes parked at the Qantas Domestic Terminal located at Sydney Airport, Australia, July 26, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray

(Reuters) -A cyber hacker broke into a database containing the personal information of millions of customers, Qantas said, in Australia's biggest breach in years and a setback for an airline rebuilding trust after a reputational crisis.

The hacker targeted a call centre and gained access to a third-party customer service platform containing six million names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers, Qantas said in a statement on Wednesday.

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