British Airways (BA) has settled a UK class-action lawsuit for an undisclosed sum concerning a data breach in 2018. BA has not admitted any liability in the settlement agreement between the airline and law firm PGMBM.
“The pace at which we have been able to resolve this process with British Airways has been particularly encouraging and demonstrates how seriously the legal system is taking mass data incidents,” said Harris Pogust, chairman of PGMBM, told Bloomberg.
BA was fined £183 million by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office for the breach, which was reduced to £20 million last year due to the financial impact of the pandemic.
EasyJet is being sued for a data breach in a class action suit again led by PGMBM.