Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-03-05 00:00:00
Affected organization: Malaysia Air
Affected country: Malaysia
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A communications and IT vendor for 90 percent of the world's airlines, SITA, has been breached, compromising passenger data stored on the company's U.S. servers in what the company is calling a "highly sophisticated attack."