45 Lakh Air India Passengers Personal Data Leaked, Investigation Started
New Delhi – Air India’s inform passengers about a major data breach affecting nearly 45 lakh people worldwide. The leak data were collected between August 2011 and February 2021. Personal details of fliers including name, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket details, credit card data all have been compromised.
However, Air India informed CVV details were not a part of its data processor. The service fair in India has now been secured. The airline has launched an investigation into this incident, send taken steps including contacting credit card issuers and resetting the passwords of the frequent flyer program.
Well, Air India has informed its passengers in detail. And it has done so previously as well on the 19th of March when they put out a very detailed statement on its website because this is something that happened started in February this year. And then it came to light and they’ve been gathering more data. And basically, their data processor came under a sophisticated cybersecurity attack as a result of which the personal details of their pliers were compromised.
Now, this is detailed which had over a decade, which has been stored in that data processor from 2011 to 2021. Data includes a passenger name, their contact details, their credit card details. But specifically, what they have informed the passengers is that the data processor does not store CVV CVC details. So that hasn’t been compromised, some frequent flyer detail has been compromised, as well.
But of course, they’ve now secured their service. They’re investigating this matter. This is the date of close to 45 lakh passengers who flown with Air India over this period. They are, of course, informing their passengers, they’ll send out an email to each of these passengers whose data has been compromised, and they’re looking into this matter. But they do say that after they have secured these compromised servers, there hasn’t been any sort of abnormal activity on these servers.
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