Malindo Air data breach affects 30m passengers

Lion Air Group’s Malindo Air has confirmed a data breach on its Amazon cloud system, in which the data of around 30m passengers was leaked. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab released a report saying that personal and passport details of around 30mi passengers from Lion Air subsidiaries Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air were posted on online forums and the dark web. Malindo Air CE Chandran Rama Muthy said the breach was discovered last week. “Malindo Air has put in adequate measures to ensure that the data of our passengers is not compromised in line with the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010,” the airline said, adding that no payment details were stored in the system. This situation comes a less than a year since another data breach hit Cathay Pacific Airways. <br/>