American Airlines has become the latest big-name brand to announce a data breach in recent days, after an unauthorized actor compromised employee inboxes. The aerospace giant confirmed in a statement that the source of the incident was a phishing attack which “led to the unauthorized access to a limited number of team-member mailboxes.” The airline said that “a very small number of customers’ and employees’ personal information” was contained in the accessed emails, suggesting that its attackers were not able to pivot to corporate data stores.

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