UPDATE: Qantas insists users’ financial information was not leaked during app tech issue

UPDATE: Qantas has insisted no financial information of its users was shared following an issue with its app on Wednesday morning.

In a fourth statement issued late Wednesday afternoon, Qantas confirmed the issue has been resolved, but conceded that there were two instances were “some customers where some customers were shown the flight and booking details of other frequent flyers”.

“This didn’t include financial information, and no customers were able to transfer or use the Qantas Points of other frequent flyers,” the airline said.

“We have processes in place to make sure that customers were not able to board flights using the boarding pass of another customer and there were no reports of this happening.

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