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A tech security company has claimed the credit-card skimming group behind the attack on Ticketmaster was also responsible for the British Airways hack announced last week. Threat detection firm RiskIQ said that the BA hack, in which 380,000 customers’ data — including sensitive financial details — were stolen, was probably carried out by criminal group Magecart. It said the BA attack was “similar to the one levelled against Ticketmaster with one key difference: instead of compromising commonly used third-party functionality…Magecart operatives compromised the British Airways site directly”. According to RiskIQ, Magecart rewrote the BA’s sites code “to steal sensitive data that consumers enter into online payment forms”, rather than scooping up information directly from BA’s system. <br/>

Continuing problems with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines on its fleet of Boeing 787s has forced British Airways to contract leased-in help to maintain its schedules. The carrier plans to use an Air Belgium Airbus A340-300 on its daily London Heathrow-Abu Dhabi service from Sept 15 to Oct 4. BA has already used the Belgian start-up for a small number of flights from London to Cairo earlier this month. BA’s 787 fleet is undergoing precautionary inspections in light of durability problems in the compressor of the Trent 1000 Package C engines. These have required additional inspections, which has forced airlines to ground 787s using this model of engine while the checks take place. Air Belgium began flying earlier this year and has a fleet of 4 A340-300s. <br/>