Buckle Up for Turbulence: How Gulf Air’s Data Breach Took Customer Trust on a Detour

Gulf Air’s latest baggage? A data breach! The airline’s not sharing whether it’s a ransomware exploit or a stealthy hacker, but customer data sure took a free ride to “unauthorized access” land. Flight schedules might be unaffected, but customer trust might’ve just missed its boarding…

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So, Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, just checked in with some non-luggage related extra baggage - a data breach! Now, they're not saying if it's a ransomware attack or a stealthy hacker exploiting the latest trendy vulnerabilities, but it does seem like some customer data got a free trip to "unauthorized access" land. The airline has assured everyone that their flight schedules are unaffected, but the trust of customers might have just missed the boarding call.

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