{"id":260627,"date":"2026-05-31T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/carnival-data-breach-passengers-information-including-passport-details-impacted-by-cybersecurity-incident-cruise-line-says\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:25:15","slug":"carnival-data-breach-passengers-information-including-passport-details-impacted-by-cybersecurity-incident-cruise-line-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/carnival-data-breach-passengers-information-including-passport-details-impacted-by-cybersecurity-incident-cruise-line-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival data breach: Passengers&#8217; information, including passport details, impacted by cybersecurity incident, cruise line says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/carnival-data-breach-passengers-information-including-passport-details-impacted-cybersecurity-incident-cruise-line-says\/19208632\/\">Carnival data breach: Passengers&#8217; information, including passport details, impacted by cybersecurity incident, cruise line says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/carnival-data-breach-passengers-information-including-passport-details-impacted-cybersecurity-incident-cruise-line-says\/19208632\/\">https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/carnival-data-breach-passengers-information-including-passport-details-impacted-cybersecurity-incident-cruise-line-says\/19208632\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 21:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abc13.com\">abc13.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span\/><span><span class=\"YKjhS \"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monday, June 1, 2026 2:31AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC13 Houston 24\/7 Live Stream\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">MIAMI (KTRK) &#8212; <\/span>Carnival Corporation said a data breach enabled hackers to access sensitive information, including passengers&#8217; dates of birth and passport numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cruise line announced on Wednesday that the incident, which happened in April, began when an unauthorized actor used social engineering to deceive an employee and gain access to the company&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Carnival claims that although the company quickly blocked the unauthorized activity, the hackers were still able to access passengers&#8217; personal information. The cruise line outlined the following as the impacted data it knew to be involved in the incident:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sfxjZ dAmzA UoVV WtEci dSKvB seFhp wtgAa XoCUF \" data-testid=\"prism-list\">\n<li class=\"mmrhV WeAzC lZur foTEL SpgmX cnYss qArv hxIMs isuUo hCkek nYZyJ xXFZR luHJ DuCgd Veett \" data-testid=\"prism-list-item\">Government-issued identification number (such as driver&#8217;s licenses and passports)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cruise line said it had reached out to customers affected by the breach and was providing them with credit monitoring services at no charge. Carnival advised its customers to remain vigilant against identity theft and fraud and to contact local police if they suspect they are victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cruise line said it was reviewing its cybersecurity measures and taking steps to further safeguard its systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Carnival did not say how many customers were impacted by the data breach.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/carnival-data-breach-passengers-information-including-passport-details-impacted-cybersecurity-incident-cruise-line-says\/19208632\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnival data breach: Passengers&#8217; information, including passport details, impacted by cybersecurity incident, cruise line says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.abcotvs.com\/dip\/images\/19208587_053126-ktrk-carnival-cruise-offices-img.png?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-260627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260629,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260627\/revisions\/260629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}