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Breaking: Qantas hackers demand ransom, or else · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Christinamio with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Hackers who stole the personal information of
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  Speaker 1: millions of Quantus customers are threatening to release the data
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  Speaker 1: on Friday unless the airline's software provider pays a ransom.
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  Speaker 1: They've already released samples of the material on the dark
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  Speaker 1: web as a warning. The data, including names and addresses
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  Speaker 1: but not financial information, was stolen from a Philippines based
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  Speaker 1: customer call center in June. A bid by the Palestine
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  Speaker 1: Action Group to march from Hyde Park to the Sydney
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  Speaker 1: Opera House on Sunday has reached the highest court in
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales. They want the Court of Appeals to
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  Speaker 1: find Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and say
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  Speaker 1: their case has ramifications for freedom of assembly, but the
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  Speaker 1: New South Wales Police say the march, which could attract
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  Speaker 1: up to ten thousand people, is a safety hazard and
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. Government officials were oblivious
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  Speaker 1: to a catastrophe outage that left at least three people
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  Speaker 1: dead for more than a day because Optus sent an
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  Speaker 1: alert to the wrong email address. The malfunction occurred after
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  Speaker 1: a routine upgrade failed and meant people across South Australia,
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  Speaker 1: Western Australia and New South Wales were unable to make
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  Speaker 1: triple zero calls for several hours. Government officials told a
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  Speaker 1: Senate Estimates hearing on Wednesday that Optus had previously been
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  Speaker 1: informed to use an updated email address for alerts. Singaporean
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said Optus's parent company, Singtel, which
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  Speaker 1: is headquartered in Singapore, will cooperate fully with an investigation
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  Speaker 1: into the deadly outage. Check out those stories live right
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