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Hacker Flies Away With British Airways Customer Data

posted by mrpg on Sunday September 09 2018, @03:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-are-deeply-sorry-is-the-new-black dept.

MrPlow writes:

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British Airways is warning customers that it suffered a hack attack that compromised up to 380,000 customers' payment cards as well as personal data over a 15-day period. Security experts say all breach victims should immediately contact their credit or debit card provider.

[...] The breach began at 10:58 p.m. on Aug. 21 persisted until 9:45 p.m. British Standard Time on Sept. 5, says the airline, which is part of Madrid-based International Airlines Group.

[...] "We are deeply sorry for the disruption that this criminal activity has caused. We take the protection of our customers' data very seriously," Cruz says in a statement.

Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/hacker-flies-away-british-airways-customer-data-a-11474

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Sunday September 09 2018, @03:18AM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday September 09 2018, @03:18AM (#732380) Journal

    They all say they take security seriously but then spend a total of $2.00 on it, and they hire fatty from Jurassic Park to do it.

    This won't change until there are true consequences to the CEO on down.

    Bad security? Kirk took the fall for it cos he's in charge... what's the CEO doing?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Sunday September 09 2018, @09:20AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 09 2018, @09:20AM (#732424) Journal

    Kirk took the fall for it cos he's in charge... what's the CEO doing?

    British Airways boss promises compensation for customers hit by data breach [independent.co.uk]
    That would show into the balance sheets, thus influence the BA's stock. When it happens, the CEO will lose some bonuses.

    But he may be able to balance those loses if the outsourcing contract drives down BA's cost [theregister.co.uk].
    Then the problem will be shifted in IBM's court and next time you'll ask: "Kirk took the fall for it cos he's in charge... what's the IBM's CEO doing"? (grin)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @09:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09 2018, @09:56AM (#732429)

      He will pay for the costs of tracking down and deleting all copies of the stolen data? Awesome!
      How many trillion will that be?