It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims

It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims

Victims of the Easyjet hack are now being told their entire travel itineraries were accessed by hackers who helped themselves to nine million people’s personal details stored by the budget airline.


As reported earlier this week, the data was stolen from the airline between October 2019 and January this year. Easyjet kept quiet about the hack until mid-May, though around 2,200 people whose credit card details were stolen during the cyber-raid were told of this in early April, months after the attack.


Today emails from the company began arriving with customers. One seen by The Register read:



Our investigation found that your name, email address, and travel details were accessed for the easyJet flights or easyJet holidays you booked between 17th October 2019 and 4th March 2020. Your passport and credit ca ..

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