British Airways E-Ticketing Flaw Exposes Passenger Flight, Personal Data


A vulnerability in British Airways’ e-ticketing system could enable a bad actor to view passengers’ personal data or change their booking information.

A security bug discovered in British Airways’ e-ticketing system has the potential to expose passengers’ data, including their flight booking details and personal information.

Researchers on Tuesday said that check-in links being sent by British Airways to their passengers via email are unencrypted – opening them up to an attack that could expose victims’ booking reference numbers, phone numbers, email addresses and more.

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Source: ThreatPost