Easyjet Lawkoster announced a data leak of 9 million passengers

The British-Lawkoster Aisyjet Airline has announced the theft of millions of passengers of the company, including the numbers of more than two thousand credit cards. It is reported by CNN .

Easyjet said that as a result of a “sophisticated attack”, hackers gained access to email addresses and flights of flights of about 9 million air passengers, and also stole data from 2208 credit cards. When exactly the data leak in the company did not report, clarifying that Easyjet experts collaborate with the Commissioner’s management according to the UK (ICO) and the National Cybersecurity Center as part of the investigation of the incident.

The company also stated that they had already contacted passengers, whose information about the credit cards had been among hackers. Easyjet will contact all other victims of leakage in the near future. At the same time, the company has no evidence that the hackers took advantage of the information received, writes TJ .

Easyjet CEO Johan Lundgren apologized to customers in connection with a data leak and admitted that the coronavirus epidemic could become a kind of incentive for hackers.

Easyjet has completely suspended the usual flights due to Covid-19 pandemia in March-the company operates only flights related to the return of people stuck in foreign countries due to quarantine. It is not known about the terms for the resumption of Easyjet, although tickets can now be book tickets from May 29 on the company's website.

Recall that last summer, ICO announced the intention to finalize the British Airways airline for 183 million pounds ($ 224 million) for violations of the general data protection regulations (GDPR), which led to a large -scale leakage of the company's customers. The reason for the appointment of a fine was the incident that occurred in the fall of 2018. Then the hackers infected the site and the British Airways applications with harmful code and were able to steal the data of 380 thousand customers, including information about their bank cards.