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Dear Fellow Pilots:
As most of you are well aware, pilots have been receiving mailings from Leonidas, LLC, at their home addresses. Reports indicate that the most recent mailing was received by pilots on Monday of this week -- March 21, 2011. I know from your numerous telephone calls and emails that you are outraged that Leonidas has again accessed your personal information without your consent. USAPA has taken all of your concerns on this topic very seriously, and I share your indignation over the compromise of such sensitive, confidential information. I have been deliberately quiet publicly in order to avoid any adverse impact on our efforts to rectify these problems through our discussions with the Company and other interested parties. At this point, however, it is appropriate to provide you with further detail as to how we have been working to correct this problem.
The Association notified the Company of this breach many months ago. Doug Parker assured us that the matter would be taken seriously. Management subsequently identified former PHX Assistant Chief Pilot John Schreff as the individual who transmitted your personal and confidential data to Leonidas by accessing the CATCREW database. To date there has been no assurance from the Company that the information is no longer in Leonidas' possession or that it will be not be used again. Nor are we aware of any Company effort to impose meaningful consequences on those who may have been involved in the theft of confidential information. In view of this most recent mailing, we now know that, absent consequences, Leonidas is emboldened and will feel free to use any information it may have wrongfully obtained. (You should be aware that the accessed database certainly included, by the Company's own admission, pilot name, address and passport number information, and may have included date of birth information and Social Security number, more than enough for identity theft.) USAPA and its attorneys have been in close contact with law enforcement officials who are currently investigating this matter. In the absence of a satisfactory result on this front, we will consider other legal options.
Law enforcement representatives have recently requested that a list of victims be provided to further facilitate the investigation. To that end, if you have received these mailings from Leonidas, LLC, and remain concerned as to how your private mailing information was obtained by this entity, we ask that you please contact USAPA immediately if you wish to be included on the list of victims that will be provided to the investigating law enforcement agency. Please be advised that inclusion on this list will require that you cooperate with law enforcement as part of the investigation.
USAPA would also like to make a special request of any pilot that has moved or changed addresses since September 2009 and who has received these mailings at their new address. If you fall into this category, we ask that you please send USAPA via email, fax or mail (see contact information below) a copy of the first Leonidas, LLC, mailing envelope, the most recent Leonidas, LLC, mailing envelope, and a brief explanation of when you changed addresses and when you updated that information with the Company for purposes of CATS or otherwise.
To contact USAPA in regard to this matter, please send information:
By email:
TheftInvestigation@USAirlinePilots.org
By fax (please include cover page with "Attention: Theft Investigation"):
704-936-4592
By U.S. Mail:
Natasha Lindsey
Investigation
US Airline Pilots Association
5821 Fairview Rd, Suite 400
Charlotte, NC 28209
I would like to reiterate that the Association considers the possible breach of our pilots' confidential, personal information to be of the utmost concern and severity. Please rest assured that your Union continues to work tirelessly with law enforcement and others to ensure that those responsible are held fully accountable.
Sincerely,
Captain Michael Cleary
President