Cathay Pacific faces probe over massive data breach

Hong Kong's privacy commissioner will launch a compliance investigation into Cathay Pacific Airways over a data breach involving 9.4m passengers, saying the carrier may have violated privacy rules. The airline has faced criticism for the 7-month delay in its October revelation of the breach in the data, which it said had been accessed without authorisation, following suspicious activity in its network in March. "There are reasonable grounds to believe there may be a contravention of a requirement under the law," Hong Kong's Privacy commissioner for Personal Data, Stephen Wong, said. "The compliance investigation is going to examine in detail, amongst others, the security measures taken by Cathay Pacific to safeguard its customers' personal data and the airline's data retention policy and practice," he added. <br/>