SOUTHLAKE, Texas—Cyber thieves linked to China are reported to have hacked the U.S. air-travel system.
A report from Bloomberg Business indicates that the systems of Sabre Corp., which processes reservations for hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotels, have been breached. The crooks are suspected to be the ones that recently accessed the databanks of major American health insurers and also stole personnel records of U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
American Airlines Group Inc. said it is investigating whether hackers had entered its computers.
Both companies were hacked as part of the same wave of attacks that targeted insurer Anthem Inc. and the U.S. government’s personnel office, according to three people with knowledge of the cybersecurity probes, Bloomberg reported.
The latest breach occurred one week after security experts attributed an attack on United Airlines, the world’s second-largest carrier, to the same group.