Cathay Pacific execs grilled over handling of months-long data breach
‘The incident is a crisis. It is the most serious one the airline has faced,’ chairman John Slosar told Hong Kong legislators
Hong Kong — Cathay Pacific Airways says it is working with 27 regulators in 15 jurisdictions to investigate a data breach that affected millions of passengers. Hong Kong legislators grilled executives on Wednesday over how it handled the incident. The executives did not answer repeated questions about whether the airline would compensate all affected customers or whether it might face a hefty fine under new European Union privacy regulations, saying it was “too early” to comment. Cathay has come under mounting criticism after it said late last month that about 9.4-million passengers’ personal data had been accessed without authorisation, seven months after it became aware of the breach. It was not immediately clear who was behind the breach or what the information might be used for, but Cathay said there was no evidence so far that personal information had been misused. “The incident is a crisis,” company chairman John Slosar told the committee. “It is the most serious one the airli...
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