Frontier Airlines is leaking your passport and credit card details from a boarding pass
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A hot potato: A security researcher has discovered serious vulnerabilities in Frontier Airlines' booking system. Using just two pieces of information printed on every boarding pass – a booking code and a last name – anyone can pull full passport numbers, home addresses, TSA PreCheck codes, and nearly complete credit card details from the airline's API. The vulnerabilities have been known for over three months.
If you've ever flown Frontier Airlines and your boarding pass ended up in a photo, a trash can, or a social media post, your personal data may be accessible to anyone right now.
A security researcher going by BobDaHacker publisheda detailed disclosure this week revealing that Frontier's mobile API and booking management pages expose the full personal records of every passenger on a reservation to anyone armed...
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