Airline passenger details easy prey for hackers, say researchers

Worldwide system used to coordinate travel bookings between airlines is insecure and easy to exploit, experts revealThe worldwide system used to coordinate travel bookings between airlines, travel agents, and price comparison websites is hopelessly insecure, according to researchers.The lack of modern security features, both in the design of the system itself and of the many sites and services that control access to it, makes it easy for an attacker to harvest personal information from bookings,