British Airways Fined $230 Million over Data Breach

British Airways could be hit with a record £183.4 million ($230 million) fine in wake of a recent data breach that comprised the personal information, including log-ins, card numbers and travel booking details of roughly 500,000 customers.

According to CNN Business, the fine amount is approximately 1.5 percent of the airline's annual revenue.

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office cited weak security for allowing user traffic to be diverted from British Airways' website to a fraudulent page beginning back in June 2018. The airline confirmed the breach in September 2018.

The airline's parent company, International Consolidated Airlines Group SA plans to fight the proposed fine.

If ultimately enforced, the fine would be the largest ever under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which the European Union introduced last year. Under GDPR, violators can be fined up to 4 percent of their annual revenue.

Source: Travel Pulse