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.

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.

Millions of Aussies have been impacted by the shock cyber hack on Qantas, which extracted sensitive customer data including names, emails, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers.