British Airways data breach TARGETS British Airways
The British Airways data-breach incident targeted British Airways websites and payment systems.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jonathan Klijnsma EP 52 Details
“they breached BA”
Incident
incident:british_airways_data_breach
Also: BA breach
Web-skimming incident involving a modified Modernizr library and stolen customer payment information.
Web-skimming incident involving a modified Modernizr library and stolen customer payment information.
“they announced that they had suffered a data breach”
“380,000 people were affected just by this web skimming attack”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | TARGETS | British Airways | Explicit | 52 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Modernizr skimmer | Derived | 52 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Magecart | Uncertain | 52 |
British Airways data breach TARGETS British Airways
The British Airways data-breach incident targeted British Airways websites and payment systems.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jonathan Klijnsma EP 52 Details
“they breached BA”
British Airways data breach INVOLVES Modernizr skimmer
The British Airways breach involved a small skimmer added to the Modernizr JavaScript library.
Derived Confidence 94% · Jonathan Klijnsma EP 52 Details
“the file was a JavaScript library called Modernizr”
“they added a really, really, really tiny script”
British Airways data breach ASSOCIATED_WITH Magecart
RiskIQ's findings suggested that the British Airways breach may have involved the same Magecart skimming group or code, but the episode does not establish this as certain.
Uncertain Confidence 86% · Jack Rhysider EP 52 Details
“he was able to take this knowledge and searched his database of cashed websites to see if this same group might be hacking another website”
“the technique that we observed so many times”