Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific has been fined HK$5 million by Britain’s privacy watchdog over a huge data leak of more than nine million customers including passport numbers and credit card details. <\/p>\n
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said in a statement on Wednesday it has ordered the airline to pay 500,000 dollars for “failing to protect the security of its customers’ personal data”. <\/p>\n
Between October 2014 and May 2019, a lack of security measures on the carrier’s computer systems led to a massive data breach involving 9.4 million customers around the world — including 111,578 from the UK — according to the ICO. <\/p>\n
“People rightly expect when they provide their personal details to a company, that those details will be kept secure to ensure they are protected from any potential harm or fraud,” Steve Eckersley, ICO Director of Investigations said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific has been fined HK$5 million by Britain’s privacy watchdog over a huge data leak of more than nine million customers including passport numbers and credit card details. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said in a statement on Wednesday it has ordered the airline to pay 500,000 dollars for “failing to protect the security of its customers’ personal data”. Between October 2014 and May 2019, a lack of security measures on the carrier’s computer systems led to a massive data breach involving 9.4 million customers around the world — including 111,578 from the UK — according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}