Transavia allegedly had thousands of its employees' data hacked

Passport, CV, cover letters, crew member certificates certified by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC)….

According to the online media

, the private data present in the hiring documents of hundreds or even thousands of employees of Transavia France, a subsidiary of Air France, was recently recovered from an internal server of the company by hackers. computers.

According to our colleagues, the latter would have sent an email to the employees on February 15, in which was written: “Remember that we are not the bad guys in this story.

»

Indeed, according to the

site , which specializes in computer hacking, the hackers in this case are whistleblowers wishing to warn the subsidiary against computer flaws in its system.

Conviction in the Netherlands

For its part, the company minimizes the facts by ensuring that its internal network is not in question and asks its employees not to enter into contact with hackers.

According to

, these hackers even deleted the recovered documents.

The National Commission for Computing and Liberties (CNIL) would have been seized by several complaints in France.

Last November, the Dutch subsidiary of Transavia, accused of serious breaches in the security of passenger data, was fined 400,000 euros.

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