British Airways reveal more details of huge hack which saw customer card details stolen

Worrying.

More than 185,000 people may have had payment card details stolen in a hack on the British Airways website.

British Airways revealed last month that it had identified 380,000 payment cards at risk, although on Thursday it downgraded its estimate to 244,000 affected. The airline said 185,000 customers’ payment card information and personal details were compromised as part of the IT breach. In a statement, the company said around 77,000 of those customers, who hadn’t previously been notified, potentially had their name, billing address, card number, expiry data and security code compromised. The follow-up investigation conducted by the airline revealed that another 108,000 were potentially stolen, but those were lacking the CVV number, the three-digit code which acts as an extra layer of protection for online transactions. All affected customers were notified by email by 5pm on Friday, a spokesperson for British Airways said.