Avoid the Hack! :donor:<p>FlightAware warns that some customers’ info has been ‘exposed,’ including Social Security numbers</p><p>A misconfiguration on popular flight tracking platform <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FlightAware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlightAware</span></a> has been exposing user data since at least 2021.</p><p>Data exposed includes:</p><p>- email addresses<br>- billing and shipping addresses<br>- phone numbers<br>- social media accounts<br>- passwords (uhhhhh, no specifics on plaintext or hashed)<br>- SSNs<br>- DOB<br>- information on owned aircraft<br>- activity on the platform<br>- last 4 digits of credit card number</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dataleak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataleak</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/19/flightaware-warns-that-some-customers-info-has-been-exposed-including-social-security-numbers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2024/08/19/flig</span><span class="invisible">htaware-warns-that-some-customers-info-has-been-exposed-including-social-security-numbers/</span></a></p>