Cathay Pacific Joins Growing List of Airlines Hit by Data Breach
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Cathay Pacific Joins Growing List of Airlines Hit by Data Breach

Nov 2nd, 2026 • 5 min • View Source

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said it had joined a growing list of global airlines affected by a data breach at a major software provider. Cathay said around 53,000 bookings were affected by unauthorized access to reservation data held …

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