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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
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 09 2018, @03:26AM
The title makes it sound like all this data was just lying around, and some passenger picked it up as he boarded a plane.
Or, maybe it's a romance story - the hacker and the data fell in love, and flew away together.
Such a title isn't terribly unusual, but it's disconcerting to click a link which seems professional (bankinfosecurity.com) to find this sort of clickbait. I suppose it's my own fault. Any nitwit can give their site a professional sounding name, right? I shouldn't presume that this one is as good as the onion.