"The third-party provider has confirmed that the incident has been contained and that they have officially notified the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and the National Cyber Security Centre, as has Aer Lingus. “It has also been confirmed that no phone contact details relating to Aer Lingus current or former employees were compromised. “It has been confirmed that no financial or bank details relating to Aer Lingus current or former employees were compromised in this incident,” Aer Lingus said in a statement. The compromised data consists of employee number, title, name, date of birth, address line 1, email address, start date and end date of employment, and in the majority of cases, PPS/Social Security numbers. Now, payroll provider Zellis has since confirmed eight of their clients have been affected and Aer Lingus is among them.īritish Airways, the BBC and Boots staff have also been compromised. READ MORE: Kinahan cartel mobster Liam Byrne facing up to 20 years behind bars The attack is reportedly orchestrated by a prolific Russian cyber-crime gang known as Clop - known for extorting industrial organisations with ransomware attacks. US company Progress Software revealed last week hackers had found a way to compromise the MOVEit Transfer software which is used by many large companies to send sensitive files securely CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.A ransomware gang, with links to Russia, responsible for a global cyber attack that has led to 5,000 Aer Lingus staff having their data stolen, may have acquired enough information for identity theft, a leading cyber crime expert has warned. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account Issues also being experience internationally as digital systems such as boarding passes impacted /FAm4tU8V6L- Samantha Libreri September 10, 2022Īer Lingus is asking customers who are booked on flights that were canceled not to come to Dublin Airport, and urged them to change their travel plans at no charge through its call center or on social media.Ī journalist in Ireland posted a video of ‘thousands’ of people lined up outside a terminal in the Dublin airport. There are now thousands of people queuing outside Dublin Airport Terminal 2 as an Aer Lingus IT problem causes significant flight delays. It tweeted pictures of the lines at Dublin, showing hundreds of people lined up at its kiosks. RyanAir, a low cost Irish carrier, said it is offering “rescue fares” of 100 euros for passengers stranded at the Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports. The airline later restored its computer system and said it is taking steps to bring all its systems back online, adding that it “sincerely apologises” to its customers. “A UK network provider servicing the cloud-based system has experienced a major break in connectivity,” the Dublin-based carrier said in a statement. The carrier said the outage affected 51 flights. Aer Lingus canceled all flights scheduled to depart from its Dublin Airport hub that were bound for European countries and the United Kingdom because of a computer malfunction.
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