Sacked Kenya Airways officers had access to company data for five months

KQ Human Resource Manager Alban Mwendar responds to question when he appeared before Senate Committee Inquiry on KQ Affairs at Parliament on Tuesday 03/11/15.PHOTO:BONIFACE OKENDO

Kenya Airways (KQ) retained the names of former senior staff in its database for 132 days thus compromising the safety of the company's sensitive data.

The airline's senior managers yesterday owned up to having failed to remove the names from their records even as the Senate committee looking into the woes facing the company, expressed fears that the anomaly could have been abused by the former employees.