Latest Airline news

Air Canada discloses data breach of employee and 'certain records'

Air Canada, the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, disclosed a cyber security incident this week in which hackers "briefly" obtained limited access to its internal systems. The incident resulted in the theft of a limited amount of personal information of some of its employees and "certain records."
- Ax Sharma
- September 23, 2023
- 07:16 AM
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Airline exposes passenger info to others due to a 'technical error'

airBaltic, Latvia's flag carrier has acknowledged that an 'internal technical error' exposed reservation details of some of its passengers to other airBaltic passengers.
- Ax Sharma
- May 15, 2023
- 11:04 AM
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Scandinavian Airlines says cyberattack caused passenger data leak

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has posted a notice warning passengers that a recent multi-hour outage of its website and mobile app was caused by a cyberattack that also exposed customer data.
- Bill Toulas
- February 16, 2023
- 03:32 PM
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Air France and KLM notify customers of account hacks

Air France and KLM have informed Flying Blue customers that some of their personal information was exposed after their accounts were breached.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 06, 2023
- 03:21 PM
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American Airlines discloses data breach after employee email compromise

American Airlines has notified customers of a recent data breach after attackers compromised an undisclosed number of employee email accounts and gained access to sensitive personal information.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 19, 2022
- 05:50 PM
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Ragnar Locker ransomware claims attack on Portugal's flag airline

The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has claimed an attack on the flag carrier of Portugal, TAP Air Portugal, disclosed by the airline last Friday.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 31, 2022
- 01:01 PM
- 0
SpiceJet airline passengers stranded after ransomware attack

Indian low-cost airline SpiceJet has informed its customers of an attempted ransomware attack that has impacted some of its systems and caused delays on flight departures today.
- Bill Toulas
- May 25, 2022
- 07:43 AM
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State-sponsored hackers abuse Slack API to steal airline data

A suspected Iranian state-supported threat actor is deploying a newly discovered backdoor named 'Aclip' that abuses the Slack API for covert communications.
- Bill Toulas
- December 15, 2021
- 12:32 PM
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Hackers hit Iran's Mahan airline, claim confidential data theft

One of Iran's largest privately-owned airlines, Mahan Air, has announced a cybersecurity incident that has resulted in its website going offline and potentially data loss.
- Bill Toulas
- November 22, 2021
- 01:30 PM
- 0
LockBit gang leaks Bangkok Airways data, hits Accenture customers

Bangkok Airways, a major airline company in Thailand, confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack earlier this month that compromised personal data of passengers.
- Ionut Ilascu
- September 01, 2021
- 03:36 AM
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Air India data breach impacts 4.5 million customers

Air India disclosed a data breach after personal information belonging to roughly 4.5 million of its customers was leaked two months following the hack of Passenger Service System provider SITA in February 2021.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 21, 2021
- 02:48 PM
- 0
SITA data breach affects millions of travelers from major airlines

Passenger data from multiple airlines around the world has been compromised after hackers breached servers belonging to SITA, a global information technology company.
- Ionut Ilascu
- March 05, 2021
- 02:13 PM
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LazyScripter hackers target airlines with remote access trojans

Security researchers analyzing multiple sets of malicious emails believe they uncovered activity belonging to a previously unidentified actor that fits the description of an advanced persistent threat (APT).
- Ionut Ilascu
- February 24, 2021
- 08:51 AM
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Former IT Employee Jailed for Taking Down Airline Systems

Scott Burns, a former employee of information and communications technology (ICT) provider Blue Chip was sentenced to 10 months in prison for taking down the computers of British airline Jet2.com Limited (aka Jet2) for over 12 hours.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 19, 2019
- 05:42 PM
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Millions of Lion Air Passenger Records Exposed and Exchanged on Forums

Tens of millions of records from customers of two airline companies owned by Lion Air have been circulating on data exchange forums for at least a month. The info was stored in an Amazon bucket that was open on the web.
- Ionut Ilascu
- September 17, 2019
- 06:31 AM
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Customer Information Exposed In Air New Zealand Phishing Attack

Air New Zealand sent e-mails to customers enrolled in its Airpoints loyalty program to warn them of a phishing attack that successfully compromised the email accounts of two staff members which potentially led to personal information being accessed by the attackers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 09, 2019
- 12:40 PM
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U.S. Airlines Cancel, Delay Flights Because of Aerodata Outage

Multiple U.S. airlines including United, Delta, Jetblue, and Southwest experienced system-wide computing outages because of a third-party contractor leading to numerous flight cancellations and delays throughout the day.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 01, 2019
- 02:59 PM
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Airbus Data Breach Exposes Employee Credentials, Professional Contact Details

Commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus announced a data breach incident that impacted the company's "Commercial Aircraft business" information systems and led to third parties gaining unauthorized access to data.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 30, 2019
- 04:33 PM
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Over 140 International Airlines Affected by Major Security Breach

Potential attackers could view and change private information in flight bookings made by millions of customers of major international airlines because of a security issue in the Amadeus online booking system
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 16, 2019
- 12:02 PM
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Retired Airline Manager Who Hacked Former Employer Caught Thanks to VPN Logs

An Alaska judge sentenced a 59-year-old woman, a former director at Peninsula Airlines (PenAir), for hacking her former employer and wreaking havoc for two days inside the company's flight reservations system.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 16, 2018
- 10:17 AM
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