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EasyJet reports
9 million of its
customers have
been hacked
asyJet, a European aviation
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giant, has announced that it
has experienced an extremely
sophisticated cyberattack affecting over
9 million of its customers.
A total of 2,208 customers have also had
their credit card details ‘accessed’, and
email addresses and travel details have
been stolen.
The airline said in a statement: “As soon
as we became aware of the attack, we
took immediate steps to respond to
and manage the incident and engaged
leading forensic experts to investigate
the issue. We also notified the National
Cyber Security Centre and the ICO.
“Our forensic investigation found that,
for a very small subset of customers
(2,208), credit card details were
accessed. Action has already been
taken to contact all of these customers
and they have been offered support.
ACRONIS ANNOUNCED AS OFFICIAL AI
PARTNER FOR TOYOTA GAZOO RACING
WEC TEAM
“There is no evidence that any
personal information of any nature
has been misused, however, on the
recommendation of the ICO, we are
communicating with the approximately
9 million customers whose travel details
were accessed, to advise them of
protective steps to minimise any risk of
potential phishing.”
Cath Goulding, CISO, Nominet,
described the incident as a significant
breach and that given the breadth
of data that airlines hold, follow-up
phishing attacks could be damaging.
Goulding said the airline industry
will continue to be vital to the world
economy and thus, it will need to
ensure standards don’t slip by taking
the correct security precautions – best
practices will be vital to maintaining
integrity and customer trust.
cronis, a global leader
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in cyber protection,
has announced a new
technology partnership with Toyota
Gazoo racing WEC team, becoming
its official Artificial Intelligence partner.
Acronis will design AI/ML solutions to
assist the team’s performance both on
and off the racetrack.
The name, Toyota, is synonymous
with motorsport and with endurance
racing. It’s a field where the famous
Japanese marque has excelled in
recent years, claiming the prestigious
World Endurance Championship
(WEC) in 2014 with Anthony
Davidson and Sebastien Buemi at the
wheel and more recently in 2018/19,
when Buemi again was triumphantly
partnered by Fernando Alonso and
home hero Kazuki Nakajima.
Unquestionably one of the
most prestigious of motorsport
championships, the WEC races on
some of the most iconic circuits
around the globe, including Silverstone,
Fuji, Sebring, Spa-Francorchamps
and, of course, the 24 hours of Le
Mans. It was at this most iconic of
venues where Toyota has won on the
last two occasions and will be looking
for a hat-trick of titles this year in the
TS050 Hybrid.
Toyota Gazoo Racing will use
Acronis’ expertise in Machine
Learning and Artificial Intelligence to
process large amounts of racing data
for the development of cars. Acronis
will also assist with the analysis of
the wind tunnel data, accelerating
aerodynamics projects across the
team’s race car lineup.
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