Air Canada and Ben-Gurion Airport Join List of Cybersecurity Victims in the Air Travel Industry
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Two unrelated cybersecurity incidents affecting the air travel industry were revealed yesterday. Major carrier Air Canada said that an unauthorized group of people accessed its internal system, compromising the personal information of an unknown number of employees.
Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick said “certain records” were affected by the “limited” breach, without naming which ones. The flagship carrier would not say when the hack happened or when it first learned about the cybersecurity incident.
An airline spokesperson said that flight operations systems and customer-facing systems were unaffected by the breach. “We can also confirm all our systems are fully operational,” the spokesperson said. “We have since implemented further enhancements to our security measures, including with the help of leading global cybersecurity e…
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