Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
UK’s largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected
The company behind three of the UK’s busiest airports says “a quantity” of data was stolen during a recent “cybersecurity incident".
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) operates Manchester Airport in the North West of England, Cambridgeshire’s Stansted Airport, and East Midlands Airport in Derbyshire.
The affected data includes information collected as part of its car parking, lounge, and fast track bookings, as well as information collected as part of MAG's public Wi-Fi services. Email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations, and postcodes are the data types currently known to be compromised.
A spokesperson at MAG told The Register that the majority of the 8.7 million customers caught up in the breach only had their email addresses compromised.
As is always the case, individuals will be affected in different ways. Not all of the data types will be compromised for all customers.
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