Hackers got individual details about thousands of individuals who used to endedupbeing pilots at American and Southwest airlinecompanies
FILE – The American Airlines logodesign on top of the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, Dec. 19,2017 Personal details for more than 8,000 candidates to endedupbeing pilots at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines was taken when hackers broke into a information base kept by a recruiting business. The breach at Austin, Texas-based Pilot Credentials tookplace on April 30, and the airlinecompanies foundout about it on May 3. (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth, File)
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Personal info for more than 8,000 candidates to endedupbeing pilots at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines was taken when hackers broke into a information base kept by a recruiting business.
The breach at Austin, Texas-based Pilot Credentials happened April 30, and the airlinecompanies discovered about it on May 3. They informed impacted task hunters last week.
According to letters that the airlinecompanies were needed to file with regulators in Maine, hackers acquired gainaccessto to names, birth dates, Social Security and passport numbers,