Stolen data experts at HaveIBeenPwned have analysed the published material and confirmed it contains people’s email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, licence plate numbers, purchasing history and browsing device data. <\/p>\n
Cyber-security expert Kevin Beaumont warned those affected to be on high alert for other forms of scam and hack – especially high profile or wealthy individuals. <\/p>\n
“The data includes both historical locations and planned future travel, so individuals sensitive to their movements being known may need to take precautions,” he said. <\/p>\n
“People should be alert to scammers reusing the data and so knowing details such as phone numbers and car registration numbers,” he added.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement organisations including the UK’s National Crime Agency have long advised victims of extortion attacks not to pay criminal ransoms as it fuels the hacker ecosystem. <\/p>\n
MAG says it is working with the authorities and specialist advisors and says passengers’ physical safety has not be at risk in the airports.<\/p>\n
Unusually, the cyber criminals’ website where the MAG data is available is hosted on the clear internet and not on the dark net like most other so-called hacker “leak sites”. <\/p>\n
This makes the data easier to access, increasing the risk to victims of MAG and the other companies the gang has breached in recent months.<\/p>\n
As well as posting the stolen data, the hackers boasted about how they breached each victim using the same method each time – exploiting weaknesses in how companies store their digital keys for internal networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stolen data experts at HaveIBeenPwned have analysed the published material and confirmed it contains people’s email addresses, phone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-757826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}