Akasa data hacked, airline asks customers to be ‘vigilant against possible phishing attempts’

NEW DELHI: A data breach has hit India’s newest airline, Akasa Air, that started flying on August 7, 2022. The airline says the breach was “limited to names, gender, email addresses and phone numbers” and that “no travel-related information, travel records or payment information was compromised.”
It has reported the hacking to CERT-In, the government authorised nodal agency to deal with such incidents, and advised its customers to be “vigilant against possible phishing attempts, since (their) information may have been accessed as a result of this incident.”
In the recent past, other Indian carriers like IndiGo, Air India and SpiceJet have also seen their data base being hacked.