Cathay Pacific Data Breach Hits 9.4 Million People (zdnet.com) 20
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific informed the Hong Kong stock exchange of a data breach late on Wednesday night that could affect 9.4 million people. In a notice, the airline said it would reach out to members of its Marco Polo Club, Asia Miles, and registered users. Otherwise, people who are worried about whether they have been hit should fill in an enquiry form. Cathay said that passenger details including name, nationality, date of birth, phone number, email address, passport number, identity card number, frequent flyer membership number, customer service remarks, and historical travel information could have been accessed. In its statement [PDF] to the exchange, Cathay said 860,000 passport numbers and approximately 245,000 Hong Kong identity card numbers were accessed. A small number of credit card numbers, 403 in total, were accessed, as well as 27 cards with no CVV. Don't worry, the airline is "offering ID monitoring services" and "free credit monitoring services" to those impacted...
Their enquiry form is useless (Score:2)
If you're not a member of one of their clubs, all you can enter is your name and the email address they have on file for you. Too bad if you don't have access to that email any more...
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So if you are worried that they lost your data, you could give them your data again, in the hope that they will not lose it this time?
Does anybody else think that you would have to be quite naive to do that?
Second Chance (Score:5, Insightful)
Just in case you weren't caught out in the first data breach, you now have the opportunity of providing personal data through the enquiry form for a subsequent breach.
Let's play! (Score:2)
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The only way to win is not to play.
Polo?
Re: Let's play! (Score:2)
Polio
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Polio
weak.....
There is a terrible pun in my reply, and I am going to hell for it
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Pollo
Arroz con?
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Wooo (Score:3)
Time for another round of identity theft!