Why you should not post your boarding pass on Social Media

Here is are just some of the things a hacker can do with a photograph of your boarding pass:

• Get your full name (Your complete name is written there, which anyone can type it on Facebook or any portal and see your profile to know what you look like.)
• Flight number - The exact flight that you are taking it is shown on your ticket and in every panel of the airport.
• Get your seat, flight time, destination -  You can clearly see at what time is your flight taking off and what is your destination.
• Get your PNR and E-ticket number (starts to get bad from here)
• Frequent flyer program - Your frequent flyer program number is on your boarding pass as well.
• Bags — How many checked bags did you leave at the counter? Yes, is there too!
  
• Login to the Airlines' website via your name and PNR
• See your email-id, phone number, home address, other booked flight details (worse coming up)
• Cancel your upcoming flights
• Modify your name, phone number, email-id

Even the barcode can also give away all of the information.These barcodes can be easily read on phone apps like Android (PDF417 Barcode Scanner) or iOS (BP Scanner), or can be uploaded on a web-service (ZXing) to fetch the data. It can be easily screenshotted and used it.

That bar code has all the information that your ticket has, which makes it even more dangerous that having anything written on it. As you can see, it can be easy to steal an identity, your credit card number if you have it in your frequent flyer account, your home address and any other personal details that you might have.

 First, be extra careful when posting and if you want to do it anyway, try to avoid disclosing sensitive information by making it blurry from your picture; although my advice is NOT to post any Boarding Pass at all!

  Many people have suffered from this identity thefts and stolen information, so don’t give them a chance to take yours.