Cathay Pacific suffers data breach, up to 9.4 million passengers data have been stolen

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Major international airline Cathay Pacific suffered a massive data breach in March and just revealed today that as many as 9.4 million passengers had their data stolen. Passport information, including identity card numbers, names, dates of birth, and postal addresses, may have all been compromised. Details such has where each passenger had traveled and any comments made by customer service representatives might have been taken as well. The amount of data accessed varied among passengers. Cathay Pacific said 403 expired credit card numbers were accessed and so were 27 credit card numbers with no CVV numbers attached. It wasn’t said yet how many credit cards with CVVs that aren’t expired have been accessed. However, no passwords were said to be compromised.

In a statement on Wednesday, the airline said, “The company has no evidence that any personal information has been misused. The IT systems affected are totally separate from its flight operations systems, and there is no impact on flight safety.” The airline said its working with local police in Hong Kong and other relevant authorities and customers who think they’ve been affected should visit this link or call or email the airline directly.

Source: The Verge