The Portuguese airline PLAYwas the victim of an attack by data hijacking made by the Ragnar Locker group in August 2022. The result? Significantly, 581 Gigabytes (GB) of data, corresponding to 1.5 million customer data, is in the hands of criminals.
The worst of all? The data stolen from TAP is already in the most famous database of computer attacks after, due to the non-payment of the requested ransom, the hackers shared this collection. In this way, about 5 million email addresses and more sensitive information were exposed.
Check the integrity of the personal data provided to the airline TAP
In addition to the email addresses used to create and access the account for use on TAP’s website and online platform, other personal information was also disclosed. Among these are the Names, dates of birth, Telephone numbers Y addresses thousands of airline users.
So if you want to know if your personal data has been compromised, you can access the website haveibeenpwned.com. Then, simply by entering the email address or phone number, they will know if the data was exposed in this filtration of information after the attack on TAP.
It is important to note that if you want to perform the integrity check using the phone number, you must also insert the country code. In this case, the +351indicative of Portugal.
Then just click ‘Pwned?‘, to see if your data is part of that stolen from TAP. If so, we advise users to take extra care with their accounts.
Changing passwords is one of the recommended precautions in case of “pwned”
The platform in question will indicate if our information was stolen in any of the various attacks already cataloged in its database, not just in the most recent attack on TAP.
The verification on this platform shows us if our data was stolen in a computer attack, not indicating if they were necessarily exposed, or used for other purposes.
Finally, if you get a message similar to the one I got when using the platform, then it’s time to change your passwords again.
Check the integrity of your data provided to TAP
