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Cathay Pacific Airways has announced that a 'data security event' occurred (hack) in March and 9.4 million people are affected. The airline says that there is no evidence that personal information has been misused and reassured passengers that the flight operations are on a separate system. None of Cathay Pacific customer data was accessed in full and passwords are still secure. Only data such as passenger name; nationality; date of birth; phone number; email; address; passport number; identity card number; frequent flyer programme membership number; customer service remarks; and historical travel information were accessed. Oh and a few hundreds credit cards numbers.
Anyone who believes they may be affected can contact Cathay Pacific in the following ways: Via the dedicated website -- infosecurity.cathaypacific.com -- which provides information about the event and what to do next. Via Cathay Pacific's dedicated call centre available after 12:30/25OCT (GMT+8) (toll free numbers are available on infosecurity.cathaypacific.com). Email Cathay Pacific at [email protected].
An angry passenger, identified by the user name smileymiley, left a comment on the Post's website, claiming "in the past six months I have had to cancel credit cards which were registered with Cathay showing unauthorised transactions of US$4,000 from airlines". He could not be reached for comment.
Anyone who believes they may be affected can contact Cathay Pacific in the following ways: Via the dedicated website -- infosecurity.cathaypacific.com -- which provides information about the event and what to do next. Via Cathay Pacific's dedicated call centre available after 12:30/25OCT (GMT+8) (toll free numbers are available on infosecurity.cathaypacific.com). Email Cathay Pacific at [email protected].
An angry passenger, identified by the user name smileymiley, left a comment on the Post's website, claiming "in the past six months I have had to cancel credit cards which were registered with Cathay showing unauthorised transactions of US$4,000 from airlines". He could not be reached for comment.