Personal information for more than 8,000 applicants to become pilots at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines was stolen when hackers broke into a database...
According to filings, 5,745 applicants to Fort Worth-based American and 3,009 at Dallas-based Southwest were affected, many of whom were hired by the airlines.
The Allied Pilots Association, which represents pilots at American, said 2,200 of its members were affected by the breach. Spokesman Dennis Tajer said the union is upset that American knew about the breach for more than seven weeks before it notified victims.American said it had no evidence that the information was used for fraud or identity theft, but it offered each applicant two years of coverage from a service designed to protect people from identity theft.
The airlines said that since the breach, they have moved their recruitment work to websites that they run, instead of relying on another company. They also said they are cooperating with a law enforcement investigation.
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