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Manchester Airports Group says hackers stole contact, postcode and vehicle data from up to 8.7 million customers, while payment data stayed secure.
Manchester Airports Group says hackers stole personal data tied to up to 8.7 million customers across Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports. The exposed information includes email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registration numbers and postcodes.
The affected records came from several airport services rather than flight operations: car-park bookings, lounge reservations, Fast Track bookings and airport Wi-Fi sign-ups. Together, those details could help attackers build credible messages for individual travelers, even though MAG says banking and other financial information was not exposed.
The company has not disclosed how the attackers got in, which systems they accessed, when the intrusion began or whether the stolen records have been published. Available reporting also does not establish whether all 8.7 million records were taken, only that the incident affects data belonging to up to that number of customers.
This article was aggregated automatically by CyberWire Daily's newsfeed engine. Original reporting: forgeeks.net.
