Hack of JetBlue Network for Crew Members Went Undetected for 3 Years
Skift Take
JetBlue passengers deserve to know that a cyber attack on JetBlue's computer network went undetected for more than three years. Even though the files allegedly accessed contained crew members' information only, it is still an incident that customers should be aware of.
JetBlue was among more than a dozen corporate victims embroiled in the largest global computer hacking scheme and credit card breach ever prosecuted in the U.S., and details have emerged about the incident.
Federal prosecutors indicted five men yesterday in a global hacking scheme in which more than 160 million credit card numbers were allegedly stolen, resulting "in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and is the largest such scheme every prosecuted in the United States," the U.S. Attorney's in Newark, New Jersey, announced.
On June 24, 2011, JetBlue informed crew members -- but not the general public or customers -- that it learned in April of that year that malware had been placed on JetBlue systems with files "containing confidential business information as well as personal information including the names, social security numbers and retirement fund account balances of Crewmembers employed by JetBlue since
