24 August 2026
Google buys bankrupt Spirit Airlines' 34 years of employee data for $10 million
First reported
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- Google won an auction in August to purchase Spirit Airlines' corporate records spanning 1986 onwards, including employee emails, Microsoft files, and operational data, pending court approval on September 9.
- The sale excludes customer data but includes over 175,000 employee records, 80,000 email accounts, and 500 million Teams messages that Google says it will strip of identifying information before using to train AI models.
