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The British airline announced yesterday that it was the victim of a "very sophisticated, malicious and criminal" attack, reports Reuters. Between August 21st and September 5th, the personal and financial details of customers linked to 380,000 web transactions were stolen in the hack. The information compiled in the hack included names, addresses, e-mail addresses, credit card numbers and expiry dates, as well as credit card security codes. British Airways CEO Alex Cruz confirmed that the hackers did not break BA's encryption, but did not specify how they had access, informing BBC Radio:
"There were other methods, very sophisticated efforts by criminals to get the data. He had access to our systems illegally, it was very sophisticated.
If the good news is good, hackers did not use travel plans or passport numbers.
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