A CNN reporter met with a hacker at a hacker's convention in Las Vegas in a video that was shared by someone. She pretended to be him and called up a hotel that wasn't mentioned and transferred 90,000 hotel points to her.
She called the airline and asked them to change the outgoing flight to a middle seat in the back of the plane.
You can watch the entire video here.
The point of the video was that many places online have 2 factor Authentication and other ways to keep your points secure, but on the phone there is not as much. I have found that hotels and airlines are pretty good at responding to fraudulent activity, though I don't know what they would say if they were able to play the call back.
Did you like the video? How do you protect your accounts? You can leave your thoughts in the comment section.
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