If you have recently taken to the skies or you are about to, make sure you destroy all traces of your boarding pass after your flight because the bar code on it may contain a full treasure of your personal data, and what the attackers and identity thieves love - your data
social media sites are the perfect places to post pictures from your daily the life, including snapshots of your pet, your opinions, and those all-important memes. Facebook is also the ideal forum in which to brag to your friends that you fly to an exotic location, and really make green with envy, especially if you travel first or business class, you can upload an image of your boarding pass to go with your status.
If you've never downloaded your boarding pass at Facebook (yes, some of us do not exist), you 've probably saw a friend post one - perhaps a first class pension passport juxtaposed next to a glass of champagne, a Vertu mobile phone and a delicious appetizer. For those of us traveling cattle class, the boarding pass will probably be photographed next to a sandwich mystery meat or a warm meal - yum
At the end of your travel, you take your boarding card in the trash and never give it a second thought, unless you decide to keep it as a souvenir.
Boarding passes nightmare privacy!
a boarding pass contains a dimensional (2D) bar code two, which can reveal a lot of personal information about you, including your name, phone number, future travel plans and frequent flyer number, according to Krebs on security, which exposed the problem with boarding passes being a nightmare for privacy and security. The Guardian reported similar results with boarding pass stubs.
A reader Krebs discovered and reported its findings on the blog of Internet security, stating that he was able to easily decode the data stored on his friend Lufthansa expired barcode boarding pass using a online barcode reader.
"In addition to its name, frequent flyer number and other [personally identifiable information], I was able to get his file number (aka" Registration Key "for Lufthansa flight, he took that day. I then on the Lufthansa website and use his surname (which has been encoded in the bar code) and the file number has been able to access to all of his account. not only could I not see this one flight, but I could see all future flights that were booked in its frequent flyer number of Star Alliance, "the reader said Krebs on security.
anyone with access to the future of flight information could pose potential problems of privacy and safety serious, that a third could adversely cancel flights and savvy thieves could collect enough information on this passenger to hack their other accounts or even know where they live! armed burglars knowledge of the future of flight information may also know when you are away
Not all airlines stores personal data in the same way, but with a boarding pass clearly displaying your name and flight number - It is better to err on the side of caution and destroy. You can always go paperless and use an electronic boarding pass. Just download and store your boarding pass on your mobile device, but you'll need to remember to fully charge your battery and do not leave home!
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