Personal data breach of over 3000 employee/contractors at US airline company

Synopsis

In July 2017, the airline company revealed that a hacker had successfully entered their corporate network gaining access to login information and passwords used by employees to access the network and confirmed that 3,120 employees had their logins compromised.

Additionally 110 employees may have had personal information stolen, this data included addresses, government-issued IDs, social security numbers and health information.

Security commentators praised the company's incident response and swift detection of the data breach.

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