The FBI issued a warning on social media that a sophisticated group of hackers is targeting the airline industry, putting its data — including customer information — at risk. The FBI said the hackers, known as Scattered Spider, use “social engineering techniques” like impersonating employees or contractors to convince the target company’s IT help desks to grant them access to internal systems.The FBI warning was issued as airlines were hit by a series of cyberattacks in recent days, although it’s unclear if the attacks could be traced to the Scattered Spider hackers.On July 2, Qantas announced that it suffered a similar incident when “a cyber criminal targeted a call centre and gained access to a third party customer servicing platform.” Qantas said the security breach has been contained and the incident never affected its flight operations.How safe are the Airline passengers?

