You should never print your boarding pass, here's why

guest · Dec 31, 2019

You should never print your boarding pass, here's why
December 31, 2019
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12291174

At a time when it seems like nothing online is safe – especially when it comes to travelling – an old-school, paper boarding pass might seem like the safest option.

But cybersecurity experts say that's a fallacy – a hard copy boarding pass is just as valuable to cybercriminals as anything else.
And they're warning travellers to reconsider having boarding passes printed out and sticking to the digital ones sent to phones instead, news.com.au reports.

To break into a frequent flyer account, "all you need is your name, your booking reference number and your frequent flyer number. All three of those things are on the boarding pass," Caleb Barlow, president and CEO of cybersecurity consulting firm CynergisTek, told Forbes.
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In some cases, hackers transfer points into their own account or use them to buy flights and upgrades for themselves.
"One, it's relatively easy to figure out how to get into your frequent flyer account," he said.

"Paper boarding passes are just inherently insecure," he said. "There's a reason that we took credit card numbers off receipts."
Digital boarding passes may soon be the only option for travellers anyway, with Qantas and Jetstar announcing this year they would ditch paper passes and switch to a digital system to cut down on paper waste.
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