Five KrisFlyer members who had their accounts hacked, resulting in travel miles being transferred out, have had the transactions reversed by Singapore Airlines (SIA). A spokesman for the airline said on Thursday that the miles had been credited back into the members’...
The affected account holders were likely using the same compromised usernames and passwords for their KrisFlyer accounts, added the spokesman.
It noted that the successful logins to the KrisFlyer member accounts were not due to a breach of SIA’s IT systems. “When cyber-threat actors compromise websites and online accounts, they publish lists of usernames, e-mail addresses and passwords online or on the Dark Web,” said Mr Chang. “In our world, data leaks happen regularly and passwords get compromised. If you are using the same password for all accounts, just one leak means that all your accounts could be compromised. In other words, it’s not a two-birds-with-one-stone situation, but rather an all-eggs-in-one-basket one,” he added.
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