Travel Sites Riddled with Hundreds of Vulnerabilities

guest · Sep 14, 2020

Travel Sites Riddled with Hundreds of Vulnerabilities
September 14, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/travel-sites-riddled-hundreds/

Security researchers have discovered hundreds of vulnerabilities across major hotel and airline and travel booking websites, some of which have already suffered major breaches.

UK-based consumer rights group Which? and tech consultancy 6point6 studied 98 travel sector companies, probing websites, subdomains, employee portals and other web properties with lawful online tools.
They found Marriott-owned websites were riddled with 497 bugs including over 100 assessed to be “high” (96) or “critical” (18). Some of these could have allowed an attacker to target users and their data, Which? said.

“We reported our findings directly to Marriott (as we did with all the five providers in our snapshot test) and it said that it had ‘no reason to believe’ that its customer systems or data had been compromised,” Which? explained.
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Airline easyJet, which this year revealed a breach affecting nine million customers, was found to have 222 vulnerabilities across nine web domains, including one critical bug that could allow an attacker to hijack users’ browsing sessions.
British Airways was found to have 115 vulnerabilities on its websites including 12 judged to be critical.

Elsewhere there were 291 potential vulnerabilities found at American Airlines, and a critical vulnerability at Lastminute.com which could allow attackers to create fake log-in accounts.

“Our research suggests that Marriott, British Airways and easyJet have failed to learn lessons from previous data breaches and are leaving their customers exposed to opportunistic cyber-criminals,” argued Which? Travel editor, Rory Boland.
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Which?: Hundreds of data security risks on Marriott, British Airways and easyJet websites exposed by Which?

Our investigation exposes hundreds of serious data security vulnerabilities on major travel firm websites
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