Australian retail sales barely grew for a fourth straight month in May as gains in clothing purchases were offset by a rare drop in food sales, bolstering the case for another cut in interest rates next week.

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.

Australian airline Qantas says a data hack on Monday exposed the personal information of six million customers and it expects the amount stolen to be “significant.”