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by Ben Schlappig Guest September 6, 2018, 4:08 pm

British airways hack

Anonymous Guest
September 6, 2018, 4:08 pm

Major cyber security breach at BA. Around 350K customers credit card and personal info stolen!
No Name Member
September 6, 2018, 7:38 pm

[USER=4]@Lucky[/USER]

[URL]https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3062305/british-airways-breach-sees-hackers-take-off-with-customers-payment-details[/URL]
[URL]https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/incident/data-theft/latest-information?dr=?DM1_Mkt=Global&DM1_Channel=Social&DM1_Campaign=homepage&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=homepage&DM1_Site=twitter&utm_source=twitter[/URL]

Personal data and credit card info on the loose.
Owen New Member
September 6, 2018, 8:38 pm

Same thing happened at Air Canada a week ago, luckily no credit card information was breached!
Connie New Member
September 7, 2018, 5:14 pm

YIKES! Booked a flight on BA two weeks ago. Received an email today that my information was stolen! (cc number ,cvv number, expiration,etc.) British Air says they will reimburse if there is fraudulent activity. Anyone else receive this email? Thoughts? Concerns?
MidSouthSkier Community Ambassador
September 7, 2018, 7:03 pm

Welcome [USER=4605]@Connie[/USER] – While I haven’t seen Ben write about it, Gary at VFTW has covered this: [URL]https://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2018/09/06/customers-who-have-booked-on-the-british-airways-website-just-had-their-payment-details-stolen/[/URL]
No Name Member
September 12, 2018, 1:03 pm

And James finally got around to writing about this on the 10.
[URL]https://onemileatatime.com/british-airways-data-breach/[/URL]

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