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Hackers accessed travel details about roughly 9 million people amid a data breach at EasyJet, the largest airline in the United Kingdom. In a statement Tuesday, EasyJet said thieves had walked off with customer emails and travel information in what the company described as a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack,” without providing any details. Credit card information belonging to 2,208 customers also was compromised in the incident, the company said. Exactly when the breach occurred remains unclear, though the airline first learned of the incident in January, according to the BBC. EasyJet alerted the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office to the incident, as required under European data protection law. The General Data Protection Regulation requires breach victims to alert regulators within 72 hours under some conditions, such as when personal information is involved. “There is no evidence that any personal information of any nature has been misused, however, on the recommendation of the […]

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