FlightAware Hit With Class Action Over Breach of ‘Scraped’ Data

Airline flight-tracking company FlightAware LLC failed to protect the personal information of thousands of consumers that was exposed in a July data breach, a proposed federal class action said.
Timothy Chen alleged that the breach exposed personal information of consumers that FlightAware obtained by scraping non-public sources rather than through an established relationship with them, and that the company failed to implement reasonable measures to protect sensitive data.

Information exposed in the breach included names, billing addresses, shipping addresses, IP addresses, Social Security numbers, social-media account information, telephone numbers, last four digits of credit-card numbers, information about aircrafts owned, pilot ...