American Airlines reports breach of employee email accounts

Date:
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:32:10 +0000

Description:
Email breach may mean American Airlines employee data was compromised.

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American Airlines has reported that an unauthorized actor compromised the email accounts of a "limited number" of its team members.

The company said in a statement some of its consumer's personal information may have been contained in the accessed email accounts, however, it
maintained it had no evidence to suggest this personal information has been misused or customer details affected.

American Airlines claimed that it has now taken measures to secure the impacted email accounts from any future misuse, adding it is working with a cybersecurity forensic firm to investigate the incident. What was
compromised?

The personal information involved in this incident may have included names, dates of birth, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, drivers license numbers, passport numbers, and medical information.

American Airlines recommend that you enroll in Experians credit monitoring service to mitigate the threat of ID theft.

In addition, it recommended consumers should "remain vigilant", for example regularly reviewing account statements and monitoring free credit reports.

The company is offering a complimentary two-year membership of Experians IdentityWorksSM, an identity theft prevention package. READ MORE:

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Data breaches can be extremely serious business for airlines.

A 2020 cyber attack on EasyJet reportedly impacted up to 9 million
passengers, with the credit card details of 2,208 exposed.

The data breach subsequently led to a suit from consumer claims specialist PGMBM, a law firm specializing in group legal action, with around 18bn of compensation being sought.

Unfortunately, this isn't the first time American Airlines has been targeted by hackers.

Hackers accessed around 10,000 of its customer accountsin 2015, searching for assets like frequent flyer miles or loyalty cards that could be used to purchase goods and services. Want to secure your employee's logins? Checkout our guide to the best ID management tools



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