Weekly Update 473

This week’s video was recorded on Friday morning Aussie time, and as promised, hackers dumped data the following day. Listening back to parts of the video as I write this on a Sunday morning, pretty much what was predicted happened: data was dumped, it included Qantas, and the injunction did nothing to stop it. I knew that in advance, and I’m also certain Qantas did too, but that hasn’t stopped their messaging from implying the contrary:

This wording remains worrying: “we have an ongoing injunction in place to prevent the stolen data being accessed, viewed, released, used, transmitted or published” Clearly, this hasn’t “prevented” the release and broad distribution of the data. More: https://t.co/SiuMqDlyHB

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 12, 2025

I’ll save more for the next weekly vid as there’s a lot to unpack, suffice to say that since this recording, I’ve been rather busy with media commentary, including explaining how the data is now out there, it’s not just on “the dark web”, we don’t have it, but the bad guys definitely do.

References

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2. I’ve got an ongoing X thread I’m adding to as news of the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters breaches breaks (I’m sure there’ll be many more additions to it yet)
3. Thoughts, prayers and court injunctions after a data breach (they’re all as effective as each other, as has now been demonstrated)