Capital A says recent cyberattack did not affect its critical systems

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 24): Capital A Bhd has clarified that the recent cyberattack was on redundant systems and did not affect its critical systems.

"The company had taken all measures to immediately resolve this data incident and prevent such future incidents," it said in a filing with Bursa Malaysia on Thursday (Nov 24).

It was reported that Capital A, formerly known as AirAsia Group Bhd, fell victim to a ransomware attack on Nov 11 and 12 by Daixin Team.

According to DataBreaches, a site that reports data breach incidents worldwide, it was provided with two .csv files that Daixin Team also provided to Capital A.

It said one file contained information on named passengers. The second file contained employee information with numerous fields that included name, date of birth, country of birth, location, date of employment started, their "secret question" and "answer".

Capital A's share price closed up 0.5 sen or 0.89% at 56.5 sen on Thursday, bringing it a market capitalisation of RM2.35 billion.