With airline data breaches at Cathay Pacific, British Airways, Delta Airlines and Air Canada this year, is the industry now a soft target for cybercriminals?
At a proposed value of £183 million, British Airways is facing the highest record of GDPR fines, Britain's DPA is making it clear that companies should protect customers’ data or be ready to pay.
Cathay Pacific makes it clear in their new privacy policy that the airline reserves the right to collect data on every single passenger, all in the name of an effort to know as much as they can especially for the high-end VIP passengers.
High-profile cyber attack that struck British budget airline EasyJet may have been carried out by Chinese hackers who have stolen email addresses and travel details of millions of passengers.
Impact of cyber attacks on RavnAir has forced at least a dozen flights out of the air on a busy travel weekend in December and it seems that there may be more delayed and canceled flights into February.
In a growing number of cases – including some involving Google Nest microphones for the home and airplane cameras found on back of passenger seats – surveillance devices are deployed haphazardly without thinking about the way they might intrude into people’s lives and privacy.
