People posting boarding pass on social medias like whatsapp, facebook, instagram and all are literally revealing their on identity to hackers and making hackers life easy to access your accounts and private information including mobile number, mail id and date of birth.
Look at your boarding pass, did you find
anything special? You have no idea what they are about, probably just a lot of digits and letters.
There is a reason for all these digits and letters on a boarding pass.
Every numbers or data on these boarding passes provides
your/airlines information you travel.
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Boarding Pass of Etihad Airways |
But how do you understand that your private data is safe from those individuals you would like to conceal? The response could shock you.
Popular Mechanics (Magazine publishers) says you would like to take further action to safeguard your data if you find a six-digit number on your boarding pass.
Safety scientists say hackers can use these six-digit code printed on boarding passes and baggage reservations to discover any Passengers name record (PNR).
One can access private information of passengers
even by guessing the PNRs and alter customer contact information’s.
Accessing PNR codes would allow hackers touse your private data to do all types of stuffs.
According to Safety Detective, Hacker can cancel and alter the client bookings, stealing frequent fly miles rewards, altering seats or even altering a client email and phone number.
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