Airline technology firm Sabre investigating computer breach

China-linked hackers have infringed the desktop computer solutions of You can introduce.S. air service provider business organisation American Airline Group Inc (AAL.O) and travelling tours method company Sabre Corp (SABR.O), Bloomberg noted, referring mankind acquainted with the studies. American Airlines is still investigating whether hackers intruded into its own systems via Sabre.

Attacks on Sabre and American Airlines are consistent with hacking of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, sources told Bloomberg. It said an investigation is ongoing.

A foreign government could use the data to build profiles of U.S. officials, tracking their travel and establishing information that could be used to blackmail them.

Sabre processes 2 billion transactions every day, it says, affecting a billion travelers every year.

American Airline shares some network infrastructure with Sabre, a former subsidiary that the U.S. airline operator spun off into a separate company in 2000. Unsurprisingly, the IP addresses matched activity found in the American’s system logs.

American spokesman Casey Norton said the Fort Worth, Texas- based airline is looking into the possibility that hackers entered its systems but hasn’t confirmed an intrusion. Investigators provided American Airlines with IP addresses used to breach the OPM.

“Not in light of today, but because of prevalent attacks in the industry, we have redoubled our efforts and brought in more cyber security experts to investigate and defend our systems”, Norton said in later phone conversation.

We recently learned of a cyber security incident, and we are conducting an investigation into it now.

Just last week, United Airlines was found to be another victim of the same wave of attacks.

Before the disclosures about United, American and Sabre, cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. said the same China-tied group responsible for the OPM breach had hit about 10 victims since 2013. He said that everyone should know what the hackers are doing.

“They’re doing this in giant numbers – that’s why they’re so profitable”, stated Tony Lawrence, chief government officer of VOR Know-how, a Columbia, Maryland-based cybersecurity agency that works with U.S. protection businesses. “These state actors, their job is to gather intelligence on other nations”. The Chinese embassy spokesman in Washington Zhu Haiquan outrightly refuted the allegations. He stated: “The Chinese language authorities and the personnel in its establishments by no means interact in any type of cyberattack”.