BA loyalty club hit by hack attack

British Airways is insisting that no personal data has been lost after it emerged that hundreds of thousands of Avios loyalty scheme accounts – and Executive Club members – have been compromised in a mass hack attack.
Some customers have complained on message forums that their accounts had been breached and claimed their Avios points had been ransacked. It has been claimed the attack was due to a third-party using information it had obtained elsewhere online.
In one Twitter exchange, BA responded: “We’re sorry for any concern. We’ve become aware of some unauthorised activity in relation to your account and have frozen your Avios as a precaution. We’ll be sending you more details via an email.”
In a leaked email sent by BA to one customer, the airline said frequent flyer members had been targeted by hackers using “login information relating to a different online service which you may have also used to access your Executive Club account”.
It added: “At this stage, we are not aware of any access to any subsequent information pages within your account, including your flight history or payment card details.”
A BA spokesman said: “We are sorry for the concern and inconvenience this matter has caused and would like to reassure customers that we are taking this incident seriously and have taken a number of steps to lock down accounts so they can no longer be accessed.”

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