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In summer 2018, a data breach affected almost 400,000 customers of British Airways, of which almost 250,000 had their names, addresses, credit card numbers and CVV codes stolen. The attack gained access to British Airways systems via the account of a compromised third party and escalated their account privileges after finding an unsecured ...
BA's handling of the latest corporate cyber attack shows a catalogue of missed opportunities.
A report in 2016 suggested as many as 6,000 e-commerce sites may have been compromised via this class of attack. [4] In 2018, British Airways had 380,000 card details stolen via this class of attack. [5] A similar attack affected Ticketmaster the same year, with 40,000 customers affected [6] by maliciously injected code on payment pages.
[2] [3] As a result of data breaches, it is estimated that in first half of 2018 alone, about 4.5 billion records were exposed. [4] In 2019, a collection of 2.7 billion identity records, consisting of 774 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, was posted on the web for sale. [ 5 ]
From August 21st until September 5th in 2018 British Airways was under attack. The British Airways website payment section contained a code that harvested customer payment data. The injected code was written specifically to route credit card information to a domain baways.com, which could erroneously be thought to belong to British Airways. [45]
A computer technician in Yangon found that the hacks were denial-of-service attacks, while the group's motive is to protest the 2021 Myanmar coup. [176] March: Cyber insurer CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance companies based in the US, was attacked with ransomware, causing the company to lose control over its network. [177]
October 16: The YouTube channel of Sesame Street was hacked, streaming pornographic content for about 22 minutes. [38] November 1: The main phone and Internet networks of the Palestinian territories sustained a hacker attack from multiple locations worldwide. [39] November 7: The forums for Valve's Steam service were hacked. Redirects for a ...
EasyJet publicly revealed the attack in May 2020. [1] They told the BBC that they were only able to notify customers whose details (credit card or email addresses) were stolen in April 2020. [1] EasyJet told BBC "This was a highly sophisticated attacker. It took time to understand the scope of the attack and to identify who had been impacted". [1]