Bangkok Airways suffered data breach incident after it was targeted by the LockBit ransomware group in August 2021. The attack compromised the passport information and other personally identifiable data of the customers.
The compromised information included the names, nationalities, genders, phone numbers, contact information, historical travel information, email addresses, partial credit card information, and special meal information of the customers.
The attack did not disrupted any operational or aeronautical security system but the airways investigated the incident throughly.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/bangkok-airways
"id": "ban0821322",
"linkid": "bangkok-airways",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "08/2021",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Aviation',
'location': 'Bangkok, Thailand',
'name': 'Bangkok Airways',
'type': 'Company'}],
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'nationalities',
'genders',
'phone numbers',
'contact information',
'historical travel '
'information',
'email addresses',
'partial credit card '
'information',
'special meal '
'information'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['passport information',
'personal identifiable '
'information']},
'date_detected': 'August 2021',
'description': 'Bangkok Airways suffered a data breach incident after it was '
'targeted by the LockBit ransomware group in August 2021. The '
'attack compromised the passport information and other '
'personally identifiable data of the customers. The '
'compromised information included the names, nationalities, '
'genders, phone numbers, contact information, historical '
'travel information, email addresses, partial credit card '
'information, and special meal information of the customers. '
'The attack did not disrupt any operational or aeronautical '
'security system, but the airways investigated the incident '
'thoroughly.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['passport information',
'names',
'nationalities',
'genders',
'phone numbers',
'contact information',
'historical travel information',
'email addresses',
'partial credit card information',
'special meal information']},
'investigation_status': 'Thoroughly investigated',
'ransomware': {'ransomware_strain': 'LockBit'},
'threat_actor': 'LockBit Ransomware Group',
'title': 'Bangkok Airways Data Breach by LockBit Ransomware',
'type': 'Data Breach, Ransomware'}