CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Millions of Americans will take a flight somewhere this holiday season, and they’ll each have a boarding pass; either the traditional paper pass or electronic ones.
Those bar codes on your boarding pass are the latest way hackers are trying to steal your personal information, and maybe your flight.
“Information is very digital, very open, but you have to use the internet because it’s a great way of getting convenient information faster,” said Steven Cote of Chicopee.
So when you use the internet, be smart. Thousands of people post photos of their boarding pass to social media. However anyone with access to that image can take a picture of it and scan it on a bar code reader website. For the full article click here
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