Viva Air data breach: 932K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-09-11
In March 2022, the now defunct Colombian airline Viva Air suffered a data breach and subsequent ransomware attack. Among a trove of other ransomed data, the incident exposed a log of 2.6M transactions with 932k unique email addresses, physical and IP addresses, names, phone numbers and partial credit card data (last 4 digits). Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, partial credit card data, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases. The breach dates from Mar 14, 2022; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 11, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a Viva Air 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.
Sources
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