Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-03-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: British Airways
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Unknown hackers access tens of thousands of British Airways frequent-flyer accounts. The airline states that only a small proportion of its millions of customers are affected, and no names, addresses, bank details or other personal information has been accessed.