There is a serious increase in the number of cyber attacks all over the world, including our country. Hackers, who usually target cryptocurrency exchanges, technology companies and food ordering sites and restaurant chains, are now operating in our country. to target famous airlines started. KVKKhas recently reported a cyber attack for Pegasus.
Pegasus hacked: Passenger information compromised?
Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK), published a data breach notice on its official website. In the statement made, the famous airline company operating in our country PegasusIt was stated that there was a cyber attack against .
Cyber attack against Pegasus; on 31 May information security intelligence services monitoring with tools detected. At the same time, only the pilot and cabin crew were affected by the violation. Here, personal data of the said employees such as name, surname, phone number, e-mail address, title, flight information they have made in the past, flight locations and photographs and signature images of some of these employees were stolen.
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The number of people affected by the data breach is currently unknown. However, it was stated in the notification that the studies on the subject continue.
The content of the statement published on the official website of the KVKK is as follows;
In summary, in the data breach notifications conveyed to the Board by Pegasus Air Transport Anonim Şirketi, which has the title of data controller;
There is unauthorized access to the systems due to the browser listing feature of the service, which was established for the purpose of making the flight plans of the flight crews employed by the data controller and ensuring the necessary coordination,
The browser listening feature, which was found to be open on 21.03.2022 and was found to be open, was turned off on 24.03.2022, and the vulnerability was resolved,
The violation was later detected on the information security intelligence services monitoring tools on 31.05.2022, and self-introducing texts were published on social media accounts and some websites by unauthorized access,
Upon the sharing of third parties who provide unauthorized access, it is requested that the personal data accessed be destroyed by contacting them;
Within the identity, contact and location categories of the personal data affected by the breach; The name, surname, phone number, e-mail address, title, flight information of the pilot and cabin crew members, flight locations and photographs and signature images of some of these employees,
It is stated that the number of people affected by the data breach has not been determined yet and that studies are continuing on this issue.
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