FlightAware, a flight tracking company, urges some customers to change their account login passwords after a data breach may have compromised private data. This Houston-based technology company provides aircraft tracking data in both real time and historical format.
Furthermore, it is recognised as the world’s largest flight-tracking platform, with a network of 32,000 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) ground stations spread across 200 nations.
However, the firm recently disclosed in a statement posted on the California Attorney General’s website that it experienced a data security breach on January 1, 2021. The breach was triggered by a misconfiguration that led to a setup error.
Moreover, the company only discovered the issue on July 25, 2024, exposing private user data for nearly three years. As of now, the company has yet to reveal whether the exposed data was misused or stolen during its unprotected state for three years.
In their initial announcement
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