Many people can’t control their excitement when they are about to take a flight to a holiday destination. And in that moment of energy, they share a picture of their boarding pass on social media. The problem is that you are giving a lot of people access to a lot of information without your knowledge. One day one of them may take advantage of this information and in the end you may become a victim of cyber crime or any other unwanted situation.
A boarding pass is something that gives you access to your seat after you have booked a flight ticket. Everyone knows that the barcode on our boarding pass contains information such as the name of the passenger, seat number and the date and time of the journey. But a lot of personal information that no one knows about can also be accessed via barcodes.
Hackers are always on the lookout for these barcodes to exploit someone financially. The barcode can be easily scanned by which fraudsters can access your personal details including bank account details, credit card numbers and email passwords.
Not only does this breach privacy, but it also allows hackers to target you by blackmailing or other means of extorting money. Something similar happened to former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott after he posted a picture of his boarding pass on Instagram in March 2020.
As Condé Nast Traveler reports, Mark Scranow, an information security manager at cybersecurity firm Colbat, said, “By using only this image, an attacker was able to gain access to the prime minister’s personal details including his phone number and passport. Was. [number],
While he didn’t use it for any malicious activity and tried to contact Abbott’s team to warn them about it, other hackers may not have been so generous.
Many times passengers throw their boarding pass around after the journey is over. In such cases, if a hacker gets the boarding pass, they can easily access your personal and financial details and make fraudulent and extortion attempts on you.
It is extremely important to dispose of the boarding pass properly. Anyone can do this by cutting their boarding pass which causes the barcode to be damaged properly. This makes it impossible for hackers to scan and access any information that could put you in trouble.
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