American Airlines confirms data breach exposing some customers’ data

American Airlines has confirmed a data breach that affected some of its customers’ data exposing names, birthdays, mailing and email addresses, phone, driver’s license and passport numbers and “certain medical information”.

The airline, however, said that it has no evidence to suggest that “your personal information was misused.”

“Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, we wanted to provide you with information about the incident and protective measures you can take,” it said in a statement, revealing the data breach that occurred in July.

“In July 2022 we discovered that an unauthorised actor compromised the email accounts of a limited number of American Airlines team members.