TAP Air Portugal data breach: 6.1M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-09-23
In August 2022, the Portuguese airline TAP Air Portugal was the target of a ransomware attack perpetrated by the Ragnar Locker gang who later leaked the compromised data via a public dark web site. Over 5M unique email addresses were exposed alongside other personal data including names, genders, DoBs, phone numbers and physical addresses. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, nationalities, phone numbers, physical addresses, salutations, spoken languages. The breach dates from Aug 25, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 23, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a TAP Air Portugal account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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