Hacker group claims theft of Flydubai data including Boeing software

A hacking group calling itself Everest says it obtained internal material from Flydubai, including personal data on thousands of employees, pilot training documents and confidential Boeing software. The group has listed the airline on its darknet publication site and is threatening to release the files, according to the aviation outlet aeroTELEGRAPH.

The material is said to include a complete installation package for Boeing's Performance Engineers Tool, version 3.2. That software is used in flight planning to calculate take-off weights, landing distances and the effects of an engine failure. Everest claims to hold 2,827 Java source files, more than 2,000 of which are marked as confidential or as trade secrets of the US manufacturer.

Beyond the software, the group says it holds extensive training material for the Boeing 737 NG, including an interactive course with thousands of lessons covering aircraft systems, as well as Flydubai training documents used to prepare pilots. The list of allegedly stolen documents extends well past the Boeing software.

None of this has been confirmed. Everest has published no samples of the files it says it took, and has so far only described their contents. Flydubai has not commented on the claims. Because no evidence has been produced and the airline has stayed silent, the scope and authenticity of the alleged breach remain unverified.