Over 2,000 customers’ credit-card details have been accessed by “highly sophisticated” hackers.
UK budget airline easyJet has disclosed a massive data breach affecting nine million of its customers and involving over 2,000 credit-card details.
EasyJet today said it has been the target of a “highly sophisticated” attacker, which gained access to nine million customers’ email addresses and travel details.
The company said 2,208 credit-card details were accessed by hackers, noting it had “closed off this unauthorized access”.
Affected easyJet customers will be contacted by the carrier no later than May 26, easyJet said in a statement. The company has not disclosed when the breach occurred or how it happened, but it has notified the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as well as hired a digital forensics expert to investigate the breach.
