JAKARTA: PT Lion Mentari Airlines, Indonesia’s biggest private carrier, is investigating a breach that led to personal data of its Malaysian unit’s passengers being leaked online.
Malindo Airways’ passenger information, which is hosted on cloud-based services, may have been compromised, the carrier said in a statement.
Malindo is working with its data service provider Amazon Web Services Inc. and e-commerce partner GoQuo to look into the breach.
Airlines had been the subject of several high-profile data breaches in recent years, with hundreds of thousands of British Airways and Delta Air Lines Inc. customers having their information hacked since 2018.
In Oct, Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. disclosed that hackers accessed personal information on 9.4 million customers, making it the world’s biggest airline data breach at the time.
Malindo doesn’t store any payment details, said the statement.
The carrier is notifying relevant authorities including CyberSecurity Malaysia about the breach, it said.-Bloomberg