Cyberattack steals passenger data from Portuguese airline

Portugal’s nationwide airline says hackers obtained the non-public information of a few of its clients and have revealed the data on the darkish internet.

No fee information was taken within the cyberattack, TAP Air Portugal mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.

The assault started nearly a month in the past and is being investigated by Portuguese authorities with the assistance of specialists from Microsoft, the airline mentioned.

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The hackers obtained names, nationalities, genders, date of births and addresses, emails and phone contact particulars, the airline mentioned with out elaborating.

Portuguese newspaper Expresso mentioned a hacker group known as Ragnar Locker was providing the data of 1.5 million TAP Air Portugal clients on the darkish internet.