Data Breach

Airline company Air France-KLM discloses security breach

Airline company Air France-KLM is notifying the customers of its loyalty program Flying Blue of a data breach.

Airline company Air France-KLM announced it has suffered a data breach, data belonging to customers of its loyalty program Flying Blue were exposed.

The Flying Blue loyalty program is used by other airlines, including Aircalin, Kenya Airways, TAROM, and Transavia. The company did not provide details about the security breach, it is not clear if threat actors had access to its infrastructure.

The company notified impacted customers of suspicious activity related to their accounts, and the notice sent to the customers informed them that some of their personal information might have been exposed.

Compromised data include names, email addresses, Flying Blue numbers and level, miles balance, phone numbers, and latest transactions. Air France-KLM pointed out that no financial information was exposed.

“Our security operations teams have detected suspicious behavior by an unauthorized entity in relation to your account. We have immediately implemented corrective action to prevent further exposure of your data,” reads the notification sent to customers.

The airline locked customers’ accounts and required customers to reset their passwords in order to regain access.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Air France-KLM)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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