{"id":177848,"date":"2025-09-29T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177848\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:23:09","slug":"canadas-westjet-says-some-passenger-data-exposed-in-cybersecurity-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177848\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s WestJet says some passenger data exposed in cybersecurity breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) -Canadian carrier WestJet said on Monday the personal information of some passengers was exposed in a cybersecurity breach earlier this year, though no payment data was compromised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The airline said it detected suspicious activity on June 13 and later determined that a &#8220;sophisticated, criminal third party&#8221; had gained unauthorized access to its systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The aviation industry&#8217;s growing dependence on complex digital systems and vast stores of passenger data has made it an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Earlier this month, a ransomware attack on Collins Aerospace, a unit of RTX, disrupted operations across major European airports, crippling check-in and baggage systems at popular hubs such as London&#8217;s Heathrow and Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">WestJet said the type of data exposed in the breach varied but could include names, contact details, travel information and documents tied to reservations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">However, no credit card and debit card numbers, expiration dates and CVV numbers were obtained during the breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In a notice to U.S. residents on Monday, the carrier said it had worked closely with law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">It also notified relevant authorities, including the attorneys general of U.S. states where residents were affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Shivansh Tiwary in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -Canadian carrier WestJet said on Monday the personal information of some passengers was exposed in a cybersecurity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,90536,44,90535,12237,49809],"class_list":{"0":"post-177848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cybersecurity-breach","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-payment-data","13":"tag-personal-information","14":"tag-westjet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}