WEBVTT - Breaking: Qantas hackers demand ransom, or else

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<v Speaker 1>Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Christinamio with the

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<v Speaker 1>Front's afternoon headlines. Hackers who stole the personal information of

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<v Speaker 1>millions of Quantus customers are threatening to release the data

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<v Speaker 1>on Friday unless the airline's software provider pays a ransom.

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<v Speaker 1>They've already released samples of the material on the dark

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<v Speaker 1>web as a warning. The data, including names and addresses

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<v Speaker 1>but not financial information, was stolen from a Philippines based

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<v Speaker 1>customer call center in June. A bid by the Palestine

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<v Speaker 1>Action Group to march from Hyde Park to the Sydney

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<v Speaker 1>Opera House on Sunday has reached the highest court in

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<v Speaker 1>New South Wales. They want the Court of Appeals to

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<v Speaker 1>find Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and say

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<v Speaker 1>their case has ramifications for freedom of assembly, but the

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<v Speaker 1>New South Wales Police say the march, which could attract

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<v Speaker 1>up to ten thousand people, is a safety hazard and

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<v Speaker 1>shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. Government officials were oblivious

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<v Speaker 1>to a catastrophe outage that left at least three people

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<v Speaker 1>dead for more than a day because Optus sent an

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<v Speaker 1>alert to the wrong email address. The malfunction occurred after

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<v Speaker 1>a routine upgrade failed and meant people across South Australia,

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<v Speaker 1>Western Australia and New South Wales were unable to make

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<v Speaker 1>triple zero calls for several hours. Government officials told a

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<v Speaker 1>Senate Estimates hearing on Wednesday that Optus had previously been

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<v Speaker 1>informed to use an updated email address for alerts. Singaporean

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<v Speaker 1>Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said Optus's parent company, Singtel, which

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<v Speaker 1>is headquartered in Singapore, will cooperate fully with an investigation

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<v Speaker 1>into the deadly outage. Check out those stories live right

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<v Speaker 1>now at the Australian dot Com dot a U and

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