In a massive cyber-attack on Air India’s data processor, 10 years’ worth of the national carrier’s customer data including credit cards, passports and phone numbers have been leaked.
Air India’s passenger service system provider SITA faced a sophisticated cyberattack in February this year leading to a leak of personal data of 4.5 million passengers — which included passengers of the national carrier — from across the world, the airline said in an official statement on Friday.
“SITA PSS our data processor of the passenger service system (which is responsible for storing and processing of personal information of the passengers) had recently been subjected to a cybersecurity attack leading to personal data leak of certain passengers. This incident affected around 4,500,000 data subjects in the world,” Air India said.
