Data leak fears as Malaysia Airlines website is hacked

The website of Malaysia Airlines has been hacked by a group that proclaimed support for the Islamic State and also vowed to release data stolen from the site.

The airline’s site was down for at least seven hours yesterday, replaced by a message from the hacker group, before the company brought it back online by mid-afternoon in Malaysia.

The hackers at first changed the site to display a message saying “404 — Plane Not Found” and that it was “Hacked by Cyber Caliphate”, with a photo of one of the airline’s Airbus A380 superjumbo jets. The browser tab for the website said “ISIS will prevail”.