"National carrier Air India has suffered a major cyberattack, in which the personal information of passengers, including passport and credit card details were stolen... This incident affected around 4,500,000 data subjects in the world... The breach involved personal data registered between 26th August 2011 and 3rd February 2021, with details that included name, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket information, Star Alliance and Air India frequent flyer data (but no passwords data were affected) as well as credit cards data. However, in respect of this last type of data, CVV/CVC numbers are not held by our data processor..." https://www.livemint.com/
"Air India data breach: SITA says cyber attackers accessed some systems for 22 days at Atlanta centre The customer data breach of several airlines, including Air India, was not a one-off incident but a sustained and 'highly sophisticated' cyber-attack that lasted over three weeks at SITA’s passenger service system (PSS) data centre in the US... SITA, one of the world’s leading air transport communications and IT companies, says the cyber-attack affected its passenger personal data of various airlines, including AI, stored on its servers... 'SITA confirms that its passenger processing services were the victim of a highly sophisticated but limited cyber-attack that affected passenger personal data stored on servers in SITA PSS’s data centre in Atlanta, Georgia, US... ...the breach involved personal data registered for almost a decade between August 2011 and February 2021..." https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...ys-at-atlanta-centre/articleshow/82864982.cms
