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You can find a link to the initial article here Over a fortnight on from the public announcement that Easyjet had the details of 9 million customers lost, along with the payment card details of a further 2200, things haven’t been getting much better for the beleaguered airline. Of immediate priority is that they are now looking at a class-action lawsuit with a headline figure of £18 billion, or £2,000 per person that had their details stolen. Pragmatically the figure that end up being settled on will be much lower, but still significant, both in financial costs and as a…
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Upon seeing the news earlier today that the budget airline Easyjet had been breached, my reactions (in order) were “Woah”, followed by “Bloody hell”, and finally “Not this **** again!” 9 million affected users, of which over 2200 may have had their credit card credentials compromised. Obviously Easyjet have apologised; informed the ICO and police; and are in the process of contacting customers. To my mind, this sounds eerily familiar to the MageCart attack that compromised British Airways back in 2018, leading to the breach of up to 380,000 customer’s data including payment card details. Unfortunately for BA, just 22…
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