The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) said it has been working with
the FBI for several months in the wake of a leak of personal information
of 3,000 of the airline union's pilots.
A spokesman for US Airways today declined to comment on specifics of the
case, but confirmed that some two-thirds of the airline's pilots -- 3,000
of its employees -- were affected by the breach. "We take any claim of the
breach of sensitive data very seriously," the spokesman said. US Airways
is offering 12 months of LifeLock's identity theft watch services to the
pilots, he said.
The USAPA, a union that represents 5,200 US Airways pilots, yesterday
publicly expressed its frustration with the airline's handling of the
case. The USAPA said the airline recently revealed that a management-level
pilot leaked a database of US Airways pilot names, addresses, Social
Security numbers, and possibly passport information to a third-party pilot
group.
A former chief pilot at the airline reportedly handed over the information
in an Excel document in October 2009 to the group, called Leonidas, which
represents pilots from what was once America West, now part of US Airways,
according to a published report. The leak appears to be associated with a
long-running labor dispute and bad blood between former America West
pilots and their counterparts at US Airways. Leonidas did not respond to
requests for an interview.
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