LISBON—Portugal’s flag carrier TAP told customers on Thursday that hackers had stolen some of their personal data and published it on the dark web, although the state-owed airline said all payment details appeared to be safe.
TAP said in a letter to customers the cyber attack last month obtained from its servers people’s names, nationalities, email and home addresses, phone contacts and frequent flier numbers.
“The release of the personal data via open sources could increase the risk of their illegal use, namely aimed at obtaining other data that could compromise the digital systems in fraudulent attempts such as phishing,” TAP said….