A hacker has managed to gain access to former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport and phone number.
The hacker, Alex Hope was able to find this information through a picture of Mr Abbotts’s boarding pass he posted on Instagram back in March 2020. Using the reference number on the boarding pass, Hope was able to log into Mr Abbott’s booking page. Then through using the page’s HTML code, Hope could identify Abbott’s personal information like passport number, phone number and correspondence with the Airline, Qantas.
Instead of revealing this information to the public, Hope notified the Australian government as well as Qantas, giving them a chance to fix the breach. However, it took Qantas almost five months to resolve the issue.
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