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Akasa Air suffers data breach, warns users of phishing attack

Akasa Air has suffered a data breach resulting in unauthorized individuals getting access to view user information limited to names, gender, email addresses and phone numbers. Akasa Air, newest airline in India, which started its operations less than a month ago (August 7), has been hit by a data breach resulting in certain customer information being accessed by unauthorised individuals. The airline self-reported the incident to the nodal agency the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and also apologised for the data breach on Sunday, August 28, 2022. "A temporary technical configuration error related to our login and sign-up service was reported to us on Thursday August 25, 2022. As a result of this configura...