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Major airlines and hotel chains have failed to secure their online platforms even after previous data breaches and cyberattacks exposed information of millions of customers’ and drew fines from privacy regulators. That’s the conclusion of an investigat… Continue reading Travel Industry Giants Failed to Secure their Websites Despite High-Profile Data Breaches, New Research Shows
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2020.
EasyJet’s disclosure of a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack”, which occurred in January 2020, … Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for June 2020
Lawyers always seem to recognize a good data breach when they see one. A British law firm, PGMBM, announced Tuesday it filed a lawsuit against EasyJet, the largest airline in the U.K., in connection with a security incident in which details about 9 million people were exposed. The firm is seeking up to £18 billion ($22 billion), including up to 30% in fees, or roughly £5.4 billion ($6.6 billion), for itself. The suit in London’s High Court follows similar legal action against British Airways, which announced its own data breach in 2018. EasyJet said on May 19 that hackers had accessed travel information about up to 9 million people, and credit card details belonging to more than 2,000 people. While it remains unclear exactly when the breach occurred, the BBC first reported that EasyJet had learned of the attack in January, only to disclose it months later. Some customers have […]
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If you were one of the many EasyJet customers who received an email from the airline disclosing that your personal information may have been accessed by hackers, you might be eligible for compensation.
Here’s one way you might try to do that.
Continue reading How EasyJet customers could make money out of the airline being hacked
In episode 122 for May 25th 2020: Apple and the US Government dispute over law enforcement backdoors in Apple products, secure messaging app Signal starts to move away from using phone numbers as user IDs, and details on the EasyJet data breach affecti… Continue reading Apple’s Law Enforcement Backdoor Dispute, Signal PINs, EasyJet Data Breach
Let’s take a closer look at the email EasyJet is sending to customers affected by its recent security breach.
Including a brief exploration of how EasyJet’s definition of “recent” might differ from yours or mine…
Continue reading EasyJet’s breach notification email to customers – a closer look
British low-cost airline group EasyJet has revealed on Tuesday that it “has been the target of an attack from a highly sophisticated source” and that it has suffered a data breach. The result? Email address and travel details of approximate… Continue reading EasyJet data breach: 9 million customers affected
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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The vacation-centric airline is warning victims about social-engineering attacks. Continue reading EasyJet Hackers Take Off with Travel Details for 9M Customers
The vacation-centric airline is warning victims about social-engineering attacks. Continue reading EasyJet Hackers Take Off with Travel Details for 9M Customers