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Hackers steal data from millions of airport customers

About 8.7 million customers had their data accessed and a ransom was demanded.

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#3474
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27 Aug 2026, 12:31 UTC
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27 Aug 2026, 20:27 UTC
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BBC News England
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
27 Aug 2026, 16:07 UTC
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About 8.7 million customers had their data accessed and a ransom was demanded.
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    Hackers steal data from millions of airport customers

    About 8.7 million customers had their data accessed and a ransom was demanded.

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    Hackers steal data from millions of airport customers

    About 8.7 million customers had their data accessed and a ransom was demanded.

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    Hackers steal data from millions of airport customers

    About 8.7 million customers had their data accessed, Manchester Airport Group says.

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    Hackers steal data of millions of airport customers

    About 8.7 million customers had their data accessed, Manchester Airport Group says.

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Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.

  • machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
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Capture ID
#3201
Observed
27 Aug 2026, 16:16 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
15,885 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
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metadata and excerpt
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