Thousands Of US Airways Pilots Victims Of Possible Insider Data Breach

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Thousands Of US Airways Pilots Victims Of Possible Insider Data Breach
Pilot union says US Airways employee leaked personal data of 3,000 pilots

Apr 07, 2011 | 08:42 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Darkreading

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.

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