Frontier confirms phishing emails as passengers report scammers using real trip details
Frontier confirms an active phishing campaign while passengers report scam emails containing real names, itineraries and confirmation numbers.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Hacker News
Why it matters
Passengers are being targeted with messages that reportedly know their real itineraries and confirmation numbers, which makes a routine phishing warning harder to dismiss. Frontier has confirmed the campaign, while a separate class action alleges breaches on May 12th and June 3rd compromised data for at least 11,482 people.
Frontier Airlines says an active email phishing campaign is targeting its customers, and the airline is telling passengers not to use the messages to check reservations or payments in its phishing-awareness notice.
"We are aware of an active email phishing campaign targeting our customers," Frontier says on the page. "Frontier Airlines does not email customers requesting flight, reservation, payment or contact detail information. Do not respond to any email seeking this type of information."…
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