Mumbai:
India’s national airline, Air India, has been hit by a cyber attack that has led to the theft of millions of users’ data, but it is not yet known who carried out the cyber attack and how. Number of user data affected.
According to foreign media, a cyber attack was carried out on the Air India website which resulted in the theft of data of millions of users. The data includes sensitive customer passport, ticket and credit card information. According to Air India, the security information required for the credit card was not targeted in the attack.
According to reports, it is not yet known who carried out the cyber attack. The cyber attack was reported in February. The airline said in a statement that the cyber attack affected data from August 26, 2011 to February 20, 2021.
The airline has instructed all its customers to go to the website and change their passwords immediately. According to Air India, customer data has not been misused so far. Last year, the British airline illegally banned the data of 400,000 users Was fined 26 26 million for using the form.