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American Airlines Pilots Union Hit By Major Ransomware Attack That Took Down Website And Could Have Resulted in Sensitive Data Being Stolen
The union, which represents more than 15,000 pilots at American Airlines, says it fell victim to a ransomware attack that took down its website and may have allowed hackers to steal the sensitive personal data of its members.
The Allied Pilots Association (APA) says it became aware of the hack attack on October 30 when its servers were taken offline, blocking access to both the union’s public website and secure member-only pages, as well as specific tools built for pilots.
The APA website and its online services are completely separate from American Airlines, and there is no suggestion that the airline’s systems have been compromised.
The attack was so widespread that APA was forced to update its members via social channels because its website was inaccessible and email systems had been taken offline.
In a statement set up on a temporary new website, APA said it was still assessing the full extent of the damage and that cyber security experts were trying to determine whether personal data had been compromised.
The union warned that it may take some time to figure out whether sensitive information has actually been stolen.
“On October 30, we experienced a cybersecurity incident,” the union confirmed on Thursday. “Upon discovery of the incident, we immediately took steps to secure our network.”
“Our IT team, with the support of outside experts, continues to work nonstop to restore our systems. We are pleased to report that our restoration efforts are progressing, and we will soon be able to begin to bring back some of our online services”.
The union said it could take days to restore all of its online services.
A preliminary investigation suggests APA was targeted in a ransomware attack and that the hackers had managed to encrypt certain systems, which has blocked access to the union’s IT team.
“The restoration of those systems has entailed a methodical and time-consuming process for our IT team and outside experts,” the union warned.
Earlier this year, thousands of pilots who had applied for positions at American Airlines and Southwest had their personal details stolen by hackers who…
Royal Family Website Faces Cyber Attack By Russian Hackers: Report
The Royal family’s website was up and running again by midday
The Royal Family’s official website went down for about an hour and a half in the early hours of Sunday morning after being targeted by a cyber attack, The Telegraph reported. As per the report, no access to the website, its systems, or its content was gained. Upon visiting the URL, royal. uk, the page displayed an error message, ”Gateway time-out Error code 504.”
”We’ve just received breaking news that the Royal Family website has crashed after allegedly being targeted by Russian hackers who have reportedly taken responsibility for the attack on social media. “If you try to access the website, you get an error message,” Sky News host Caroline Di Russo said.
Russian hacker group Killnet has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack. In a message shared on Telegram, a messaging app, the hacker added a link to the website which provided information about the monarch, the Firm, and the Royal Family’s role in the UK and the Commonwealth. They added the supposed takedown was an “attack on pedophiles”.
Though these attacks don’t cause major damage, they can lead to outages lasting several hours or even days. However, it has not been confirmed they were behind it.
The Royal family’s website was up and running again by midday.
As per Express.co.uk, KillMilk is the leader of the Russian hacktivist DDoS collective Killnet. KillNet is known for its Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaigns and has launched similar attacks against countries supporting Ukraine, especially NATO countries, since the start of the war in February last year. A DDOS attack involves knocking a website offline by flooding it with traffic.
Killnet has in the past claimed attacks on US government websites and said it has taken action against other countries opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In November last year, the European Parliament website was also hit by a cyber attack claimed by Killnet shortly after lawmakers approved a resolution calling Moscow a “state sponsor of terrorism”.
Hackers attack PhilHealth’s website, systems
MANILA, Philippines — Computer hackers attacked the website and online application of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) on Friday, taking down the systems and blocking access for more than 24 hours.
In a statement on Saturday, PhilHealth said it has started containment measures as well as an investigation of the “information security incident,” together with the Department of Information and Communications Technology and other concerned government agencies “to assess its extent.”
Investigation
“While investigation is being undertaken, affected systems shall be temporarily shut down to secure our application systems,” PhilHealth president and CEO Emmanuel Ledesma said.
The head of the state insurer appealed for understanding and assured that “we will get to the bottom of this and will institute stronger systems to prevent this from happening again.”
The Inquirer reached out to multiple officials and staff of PhilHealth to confirm whether the incident was a Medusa ransomware attack, but they have yet to reply.
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Ransomware suspected
A ransomware is a cyberattack that holds one entity’s data or system hostage until a ransom is paid.
In a February 2023 report by the US Department of Health and Human Services, MedusaLocker, a ransomware variant, was able to “infect and encrypt systems, primarily targeting the health-care sector, after it was first detected in September 2019.
MedusaLocker, deemed as “lesser known but potent,” leveraged the disorder and confusion during the COVID-19 pandemic to launch attacks, the report said.
According to a cybersecurity company last week, a firm usually spends about P55 million or about $1 million to resolve a single data breach and pay off ransom to regain system access.
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