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Hackers Leak 2.5M Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl. Airport Breach (www.hackread.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's mostly landing/takeoff records. Big airports have takeoff and landing fees and would keep records such as this for accounting and legal reasons. Being a major airport like LAX means it's probably mostly private/commercial jets, but also plenty of small time hobbyist aviators are probably wrapped up in this, and would be the only victim here ( general aviation pilots tend to use smaller, local airports but still on occasion hit the big ones).