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		</div><p>British Airways owner IAG has said that 185,000 further customers may have had their personal details compromised during a cyber attack.</p>
<p>The group said in a stock exchange announcement that as part of an investigation into a cyber breach that took place earlier this year, it is contacting two groups of customers not previously notified.<br />
This includes the holders of 77,000 payment cards whose name, billing address, email address, card payment information – including card number, expiry date and Card Verification Value – have potentially been compromised.<br />
A further 108,000 people’s personal details without Card Verification Value have also been compromised.</p>
<blockquote><p>Since the announcement on September 6, 2018, British Airways can confirm that it has had no verified cases of fraud</p></blockquote>
<p>Those impacted were people making reward bookings between April 21 and July 28, 2018, and who used a payment card.</p>
<p>In September, thousands of BA customers had to cancel their credit cards after the airline admitted that a 15-day data hack had compromised 380,000 payments, prompting a criminal inquiry led by specialist cyber officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA).</p>
<p>The firm said today that of the 380,000 payment card details identified, 244,000 were affected.</p>
<p>“While British Airways does not have conclusive evidence that the data was removed from its systems, it is taking a prudent approach in notifying potentially affected customers, advising them to contact their bank or card provider as a precaution,” IAG said.</p>
<p>“Since the announcement on September 6, 2018, British Airways can confirm that it has had no verified cases of fraud.” British Airways is facing a multimillion-pound fine as a result of the data breach, which the airline’s chief executive described as a “malicious criminal attack”.</p>
<p>Cyber criminals behind the attack obtained enough credit card details to use them, and BA now faces a possible fine of around £500 million over the breach, with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) also investigating the incident.</p>
<p>BA’s data breach took place after the introduction of the new Data Protection Act, which includes the provisions of the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).</p>
<p>Under the new regulations, the maximum penalty for a company hit with a data breach is a fine of either £17 million or 4% of global turnover, whichever is greater.</p>
<p>In the year ended December 31 2017, BA’s total revenue was £12.2 billion, meaning the company could face a fine of around £500 million if the ICO takes action.</p>
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