Cyberattack hits Air India: Data of 45 lakh fliers leaked

A cybersecurity attack on Air India’s passenger service system has compromised the data of lakhs of passengers, according to a message sent out by the national carrier on Friday.

In a text message, the airline said the SITA PSS data processor of the passenger service system, which is responsible for storing and processing of personal information of the passengers, was subjected to a cybersecurity attack which led to a leak of personal data leak of around 4.5 million passengers in its system.

The data leak reportedly took place on February 25.

SITA confirms that it was the victim of a cyber-attack, leading to a data security incident involving certain passenger data that was stored on SITA Passenger Service System (US) Inc servers,” SITA said in a statement on March 4, according to media reports.