Flightradar24 is a web page that displays information on
real-time air traffic around the world. It informs of
the position of the aircraft, altitude, course, velocity, etc.
This famous service has been affected by the leak
of around 230.000 emails and passwords of your customers. Those affected are
all users registered before the 16 March 2016.
Instead of using social media, the company decided
inform your registered users by email, evidently this produced a
alarm a massive phishing attack , What
change their passwords by providing a unique link to each. For
reassure your Flightradar24 users, through the forum and Twitter, Reported
that customer data was not compromised during the shipment of the
emails and that the leak affected only one server, which they turned off
automatically after realizing the intrusion in addition to forcing a reset
password of the affected accounts.
The company recommends also changing the credentials in
different services and platforms if they are the same. The article
comments that the stolen passwords were encrypted.