The China-based hacking team that has been infiltrating U.S. government and business computer systems appears to be behind two newly discovered attacks — this time on travel reservation processor Sabre and American Airlines. Sabre confirmed that its systems — which contain sensitive records on as many as a billion travelers — recently were breached. American Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, is investigating whether hackers were able to crawl from Sabre’s systems into its own, according to unnamed sources. Some of the companies’ network infrastructures are shared.
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Chinese Hackers May Have Burrowed Into Airlines
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. August 11, 2015 04:06 PMThe China-based hacking team that has been infiltrating U.S. government and business computer systems appears to be behind two newly discovered attacks — this time on travel reservation processor Sabre and American Airlines. Sabre confirmed that its systems — which contain sensitive records on as many as a billion travelers — recently were breached. American Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, is investigating whether hackers were able to crawl from Sabre’s systems into its own, according to unnamed sources. Some of the companies’ network infrastructures are shared.