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Air Canada says unauthorized group breached employee data, hacked internal system

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Dissent

Temur Durrani reports:

Air Canada says an unauthorized group of people obtained access to its internal system, compromising the personal information of an unknown number of employees working for the country’s largest airline.

In a brief statement on Wednesday afternoon, Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick said “certain records” were affected by the “limited” breach, without naming which ones. The flagship carrier would not say when the hack happened or when it first learned about the cybersecurity incident.

Read more at The Globe and Mail.


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