Sprawling Cyberattack Breaches Several Airlines
The cyberattack on SITA, a nearly ubiquitous airline service provider, has compromised frequent-flyer data across many carriers. 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.” The affected servers are in Atlanta, and belong to the SITA Passenger Service System (SITA PSS), company spokeswoman Edna Ayme-Yahil told Threatpost. SITA PSS operates the systems for processing airline passenger data and belongs to a gr...
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