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Thales News Release

United Airlines Breach Linked To Chinese-Origin Hackers Behind OPM Cyber Attack

July 30, 2015

To protect United’s crucial data, including flight manifests, two significant changes would help it. First, data should be encrypted, or jumbled up using a computer algorithm that only the company can decode, according to Alan Kessler, Chief Executive, Vormetric, a cyber-security firm. “There seems to be little incentive for this attacker to stop these attacks.”