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Willis Lease Finance Corporation admitted that some internal processes have required workarounds to be developed so that it can continue to operate and service customers, without providing any specifics about what those workarounds entail.As is often the case with early-stage ransomware disclosures, the company appears to be reluctant to mention "Ransomware" or even "Attack" in its wording.
Allied Pilots Association, a labor union representing 15,000 American Airlines pilots, disclosed a ransomware attack that hit its systems on Monday. APA said that its IT team and outside experts are working on restoring systems impacted by the ransomware attack from backups, with an initial focus on first bringing back pilot-facing products and tools in the hours and days ahead. The union has launched an investigation led by third-party cybersecurity experts to assess the full extent of the incident and its impact on data stored on compromised systems.
A vendor that operates a pilot recruitment platform used by maor airlines exposed the personal files of more than 8,000 pilot and cadet applicants at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines. Both American and Southwest on June 23 sent letters to those people affected by the hack of Pilot Credentials, a company based in Austin, Texas, that was founded in 2005 and manages online pilot recruitment portals for American, Southwest, and other airlines.
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, two of the largest airlines in the world, disclosed data breaches on Friday caused by the hack of Pilot Credentials, a third-party vendor that manages multiple airlines' pilot applications and recruitment portals. According to breach notifications filed on Friday with Maine's Office of the Attorney General, American Airlines said the data breach affected 5745 pilots and applicants, while Southwest reported a total of 3009.
AirBaltic, Latvia's flag carrier has acknowledged that a 'technical error' exposed reservation details of some of its passengers to other airBaltic passengers. Although the air carrier says the leak impacts a small percentage of its customers and that no financial or payment data was exposed, the airline has yet to disclose the total number of impacted passengers.
Recent travel meltdowns at Southwest Airlines and the FAA have exposed our dependence on fragile, outdated, or unreliable computer systems. Institutional failures have made updating airline technology even more challenging, with some legacy systems dating back to the 1970s.
Scandinavian Airlines has posted a notice warning passengers that a recent multi-hour outage of its website and mobile app was caused by a cyberattack that also exposed customer data. The cyberattack caused some form of a malfunction on the airline's online system, causing passenger data to become visible to other passengers.
American Airlines says its Cyber Security Response Team found out about a recently disclosed data breach from the targets of a phishing campaign that was using an employee's hacked Microsoft 365 account. The investigation also revealed the attacker accessed multiple employees' accounts and used them to send more phishing emails to targets American has not yet disclosed.
American Airlines says its Cyber Security Response Team found out about a recently disclosed data breach from the targets of a phishing campaign that was using an employee's hacked Microsoft 365 account. The investigation also revealed the attacker accessed multiple employees' accounts and used them to send more phishing emails to targets American has not yet disclosed.
American Airlines has notified customers of a recent data breach after attackers compromised an undisclosed number of employee email accounts and gained access to sensitive personal information. American Airlines discovered the breach on July 5th, immediately secured the impacted email accounts, and hired a cybersecurity forensic firm to investigate the security incident.