Qantas customers are finding out if their personal information was exposed in a cyber attack, as they are warned to be on high alert for scams. The airline revealed a cyber incident on a third-party platform used by the airline's contact centre that exposed the details of six million customers.

The Qantas airline company announced Wednesday that data belonging to six million of its customers has been hacked.

Australian airline Qantas said that a hacker made off with a trove of customers’ personal data including passenger names, emails, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers.