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Why you should never upload a photo of your boarding pass to Facebook - The barcode on a boarding pass contains sensitive data

29 December 2015

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"Posting a picture of a boarding pass to Facebook can seem smug, especially when no one else is going on holiday – but it could come back to bite you in a completely different way.

Brian Krebs, an author and blogger specialising in investigative stories on cybercrime and computer security, explained just how much information an airplane boarding pass contains in its barcode."

See the article: Why you should never upload a photo of your boarding pass to Facebook - The barcode on a boarding pass contains sensitive data (Independent, link)

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