Taiwanese media outlets such as Liberty Times and China Times reporte on the 27th that personal information of 1.1 million members of China Airlines, a state-owned airline in Taiwan, appeared to have been hacke and leak.
Citing sources, Taiwanese media outlets reported that some of the hacke China Airlines member information was releas for sale on the dark web on the 24th.
The leaked information included member IDs
Chinese and English names, genders, dates of birth, country taiwan phone number database codes, mobile phone numbers, emails, and airports use by members, and more detaile personal information for 100 members was also releas.
The source said that the information released was updated in January.
In relation to this, China Airlines emphasize the previous day that “the results of the investigation showe that the information release online does not match the current member database,”
They explaine that it was likely data from last year’s taiwan phone number list member database hacking incident.
He adde that he had already report the issue to the relevant authorities and the police and request an investigation.
Last January, China
Airlines was hacke, and personal information of dt data President-elect Lai Ching-de, TSMC founder Jiang Zhongmo, Foxconn founder Guo Taiming, and Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxue was leake.
China Airlines informed
Its members that in order to strengthen the security of their member information, they will be requir to enter a one-time password via their mobile phone or email when logging in online starting from the 2nd of next month, and that the login system via social networking services (SNS) will be cancel.
Taiwanese meia report, citing security experts, that the China Airlines hack appear to be an attack that exploit a vulnerability before the release of a system security patch.
