British Airways
British Airways faces record £183 million GDPR fine after data breach
Jul 8, 2019British Airways is facing a record fine of £183 million, after its systems were breached by hackers last year and the personal and payment card information of around 500,000 customers were stolen. Read more about what you need to know in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
British Airways hack is worse than originally thought
Oct 26, 2018A deeper investigation has revealed that hackers were stealing information for much longer than initially thought, and an additional 185,000 British Airways customer payment cards were compromised.
Smashing Security podcast #095: British Airways hack, Mac apps steal browser history, and one person has 285,000 texts leaked
Sep 13, 2018Malicious script is being blamed for the British Airways hack, Trend Micro’s apps are booted out of the Mac App Store for snaffling private data, and Paul Manafort’s daughter wants Twitter to remove a link. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast.
Law firm launches £500 million group action over British Airways hack
Sep 10, 2018Within hours of British Airways admitting that it had suffered a serious security breach, with hackers accessing customer data and the full details of 380,000 payment cards, a British law firm announced that it was launching a £500m group action against the airline.
British Airways hacked – customer data and details of 380,000 card payments stolen
Sep 6, 2018Hackers have stolen the personal and payment card information of hundreds of thousands of British Airways passengers from its website.
British Airways blames IT meltdown on human error
Jun 6, 2017Big companies like British Airways have a variety of safety nets in place. Should one system fail, then it should be easy to switch over to another. So how did things go so badly wrong?
Smashing Security podcast #023: Covfefe
Jun 1, 2017In this latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast, the team are joined by John Hawes to discuss bare naked blackmail, the British Airways IT catastrophe, and Facebook fines. Check it out, and subscribe to the show on iTunes!
Fake British Airways first class ticket offer tricks Facebook users
Nov 25, 2015Thousands of Facebook users have liked a fake British Airways promotion, and shared the post, in the hope of winning a non-existent prize.
No, British Airways isn’t giving away free flights for a year. It’s a Facebook scam
Sep 8, 2015A scammy Facebook page has tricked thousands of social networkers into liking a bogus page, in the belief that they could receive free flights on British Airways for a year.
British Airways Executive Club members warned of hacked accounts
Mar 28, 2015Members of British Airways Executive Club are reporting that their accounts appear to have been hacked, and emptied of their Avios reward points.
British Airways e-ticket malware attack launched via email
Feb 25, 2014If you have received an unexpected email, claiming to come from British Airways, about an upcoming flight that you haven’t booked – please be on your guard. Find out more, by reading my article on the We Live Security blog.
Warning! British Airways e-ticket receipt malware arriving in an inbox near you
Oct 17, 2012Criminals are spamming out a malware via email, posing as an e-ticket from British Airways. Be on your guard – or risk ending up with an infected computer.