Makes You Think…What am I Not Thinking About?

This is a story out of the UK to make you think.  A traveler discarded his British Airways boarding-pass stub in the trash. It only showed his name, flight,  seat number and frequent-flyer number.  Unfortunately, that was plenty enough information to commit Identity Theft. 

Luckily, the person who picked it out of the trash was just testing to see how easy it was to find out information on the traveler. With the help of a computer expert, they logged onto the British Airways website, bought a ticket in the traveler’s name and entered the frequent flyer number from the discarded airline stub which gave them full access to all his personal details- including his passport number, date of expiration, his nationality and DOB. They never had to even guess at a password. 

Using this information, they then surfed the web of all the publicly available databases available and, within 15 minutes, found out where he lived, who he lived with, where he worked, which schools he went to and how much his house was worth.  They were able to get full access to all his personal details- just from a discarded boarding-pass stub.  Makes you think, doesn’t it? Are you protected for those things you don’t even think about?  http://www.myidentitytheftshieldsite.com 

http://news.carrentals.co.uk/boarding-passes-and-identity-theft-3422122.html