1. An application interface to an in-flight entertainment and communication (IFEC) computer system on board an aircraft for selectively wiping data stored thereon, the application interface comprising: a remote control interface in communication with a wide area network connection and receptive to a potential attack indicator from a remote client computer system; an attack classifier that assigns an attack severity classification based upon the potential attack indicator received by the remote control interface; a stored data cataloger including a catalog of individual predefined blocks of data stored on the IFEC computer system with each block assigned a data sensitivity classification, and an inventory of each predefined block of data associated with the data sensitivity classification being maintained as a data inventory list; a controller in communication with the attack classifier and the stored data cataloger, the controller designating selected ones of the predefined blocks of data to be deleted in accordance with an attack attempt response that correlates the data sensitivity classification of the predefined blocks of data to the attack severity classifications; and a data removal engine in communication with the controller and a database of the IFEC computer system on which the predefined blocks of data are stored, the data removal engine implementing the deletion operations on the database as designated in the attack attempt response for the selected ones of the predefined blocks of data.