Reuters reported that "British Airways was forced
to apologize on Friday after the credit card details of hundreds of
thousands of its customers were stolen over a two-week period in
the most serious attack on its website and app." The September
6, 2018 reported entitled "BA apologizes after 380,000 customers hit in cyber
attack" included the comments:
The airline discovered on
Wednesday that bookings made between Aug. 21 and Sept. 5 had been
infiltrated in a "very sophisticated, malicious criminal"
attack, BA Chairman and Chief Executive Alex Cruz said. It
immediately contacted customers when the extent of the breach
became clear.
Around 380,000 card payments were
compromised, the airline said, with hackers obtaining names, street
and email addresses, credit card numbers, expiry dates and security
codes – sufficient information to steal from
accounts.
