SITA Supply Chain Breach Hits Multiple Airlines

A major aviation IT company has been breached in what appears to be a coordinated supply chain attack affecting multiple airlines and hundreds of thousands of passengers.

SITA provides IT and telecoms services to around 400 members in the industry, claiming to serve around 90% of the global airline business.

It revealed yesterday that attackers had compromised passenger data stored on its SITA Passenger Service System servers in the US. It said these servers operate passenger processing systems for airline clients.

“After confirmation of the seriousness of the data security incident on February 24 2021, SITA took immediate action to contact affected SITA PSS customers and all related organizations,” it continued.

“We recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about security threats, and, at the same time, cyber-criminals have become more sophisticated and active. This was a highly sophisticated attack.”

The company had little else to disclose at this stage except that it acted swiftly to try and contain the threat and that incident responders and third-party experts are continuing to monitor the situation.

It’s believed that the attack was responsible for the Malaysia Airlines breach which compromised its Enrich frequent flyer data between 2010 and 2019.

Singapore Airlines also released a statement this week to the same effect. Although the airline ..

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