SBS News in Easy English 4 July 2025
Welcome to SBS News in Easy English, I'm Camille Bianchi.
Qantas says next week it will call six million customers whose information was taken by cyber criminals. The airline says the hackers did not see sensitive information including bank details or passport numbers. Qantas does not know who attacked the system and it has not been asked for money. CEO Vanessa Hudson says the company is helping the government to investigate. "I know this data breach is a serious concern. I know the stress that it has created for many, many millions of customers that we've had. And so right up front, I want to say, we take this seriously, and we are going to do everything that we can to communicate transparently to you and also support you through this process." The ACCC, which makes sure businesses in Australia are following laws, has a new warning for customers. It says many online shops which say they are local - are actually overseas-based businesses. These websites usually show the name of an Australian town or suburb in their brand and claim to be closing, showing fake images. ACCC Deputy Chair Catriona Lowe is hoping to work with websites where advertisements for these businesses appear. "So one of the things that we've done is written to Meta and we've asked them to come back to us and talk to us to tell us what they're doing to make sure these ads on their platform can be picked up and stamped out, similarly, many of these stores are using Shopify and we've similarly written to Shopify." Most of Iran's airports have been reopened for flights, and the country's airspace is now open for international flights. Iran closed its skies entirely last month after Israel launched a wave of air strikes and Iran responded with its own missiles. This Israeli Army pilot remembers watching a missile strike, while flying. "On one of my flights, I saw the ballistic missile, or one of the several, that left the Iranian surface, surface-to-surface missile, travelled through the atmosphere, and ended up hitting the surface in Israel, but not only any surface. This missile landed within a heavily dense civilian city." Around five thousand people have been told to leave the island of Crete in Greece, after a fire started. 3,000 tourists and 2,000 locals were moved. Stefan Achtzehn was visiting the island from Germany when the blaze broke out. 'We were at the balcony, we saw the first flames, which became bigger at a very short time. They became bigger, but they were, I think, a kilometre far away or so. At the same time we saw, I think, three or four helicopters and a plane.'
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