Data Breaches & Leaks SecurityWeek 1 month ago

Manchester Airports Group Data on 8.8 Million People Leaked After Ransom Refusal

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CyberNew Threat Research Desk
• Original Reporting: SecurityWeek
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Assessed Severity: INFORMATIONAL
Impacted Surface
Enterprise Data & Identity Stores
Intelligence Sector
Data Breaches & Leaks

Analyst Takeaway

"Data allegedly stolen from the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) and leaked online this week includes the email addresses and phone numbers of 8.8 million people. MAG disclosed the incident last week, warning that hackers had breached its systems, stealing car park, lounge, and Fast Track booking data, along with in-airport Wi-Fi sign-ups at the Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands..."

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Data allegedly stolen from the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) and leaked online this week includes the email addresses and phone numbers of 8.8 million people.

MAG disclosed the incident last week, warning that hackers had breached its systems, stealing car park, lounge, and Fast Track booking data, along with in-airport Wi-Fi sign-ups at the Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports.

The airport operator disclosed that hackers had exfiltrated email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations, and postcodes, noting that its operations were not affected by the incident.

MAG confirmed that the stolen information was stored in a database hosted by a third party and that it received a ransom demand from the attackers, but refrained from sharing further details on the matter.

Over the weekend, the FulcrumSec extortion gang claimed responsibility for the attack and has since published roughly 550 gigabytes of uncompressed data allegedly stolen from MAG.

Breach at Manchester Airports Group

Written By Ionut Arghire

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