Another data breach

Air India's delay in informing customers is inexplicable

Last week, state-owned airline Air India informed its customers that their data had been leaked. The airline said the company which managed their data, Atlanta-based SITA Passenger Service System, had been “subjected to a cybersecurity attack”, in which customers who had registered for an entire decade, between August 2011 and February 2021, had a large amount of identification data stolen. The hackers, reportedly, siphoned off this data over three entire weeks that they had access to the SITA PSS database. This data included their dates of birth, their passport information, and their credit card details. What was particularly dismaying is