Air India suffers massive cyber attack: Credit card info, personal details of passengers stolen

Air India Data Breach: Air India has been hit by a massive cyber assault through which personal details, together with credit score card info of lakhs of passengers have been compromised. In a communication to affected  customers, the nationwide service stated that information breach concerned personal information registered between August 26, 2011 and February 20, 2021. 

“Massive Air India data breach, involved personal data registered between 26th Aug 2011 and 3rd Feb 2021, with details including name, DOB, contact info, passport info, ticket info, Star Alliance and Air India frequent flyer data (no passwords data affected) and credit cards data,” Air India stated within the assertion.

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Air India stated that details of anout 45 lakh customers have been leaked within the cyber assault.

“This incident affected around 4,500,000 data subjects in the world. In respect of credit cards data,CVV/CVC numbers are not held by our data processor. Further, our data processor has ensured that no abnormal activity was observed after securing the compromised servers,” the assertion stated.

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The airline added that rapid safety measures have been taken as quickly as the information breach got here was reported. It has additionally suggested passengers to changer their passwords and different vital details to keep away from any additional loss.

“Following measures to ensure safety of data immediately taken-investigating data security incident, securing compromised servers, engaging external specialists of data security incidents,notifying and liaising with credit card issuers, resetting passwords of Air India FFP prog,” Air India stated.

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