[ISN] Thousands Of US Airways Pilots Victims Of Possible Insider Data Breach

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:32:56 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/attacks-breaches/229401204/thousands-of-us-airways-pilots-victims-of-possible-insider-data-breach.html

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Darkreading 
Apr 07, 2011

The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) said it has been working with 
the FBI for several months in the wake of a leak of personal information 
of 3,000 of the airline union's pilots.

A spokesman for US Airways today declined to comment on specifics of the 
case, but confirmed that some two-thirds of the airline's pilots -- 
3,000 of its employees -- were affected by the breach. "We take any 
claim of the breach of sensitive data very seriously," the spokesman 
said. US Airways is offering 12 months of LifeLock's identity theft 
watch services to the pilots, he said.

The USAPA, a union that represents 5,200 US Airways pilots, yesterday 
publicly expressed its frustration with the airline's handling of the 
case. The USAPA said the airline recently revealed that a 
management-level pilot leaked a database of US Airways pilot names, 
addresses, Social Security numbers, and possibly passport information to 
a third-party pilot group.

A former chief pilot at the airline reportedly handed over the 
information in an Excel document in October 2009 to the group, called 
Leonidas, which represents pilots from what was once America West, now 
part of US Airways, according to a published report. The leak appears to 
be associated with a long-running labor dispute and bad blood between 
former America West pilots and their counterparts at US Airways. 
Leonidas did not respond to requests for an interview.

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