Australian airline Qantas disclosed that it detected a cyberattack on Monday after threat actors gained access to a third-party platform containing customer data.

Qantas told the Financial Times it was investigating whether the Scattered Spider cyber criminal group was behind the attack. The strike comes days after the FBI warned there were signs the group had started to target the global airline sector.

Qantas working with cyber security experts, analyse the impacted system, and put new security measures following this week's data breach.