What makes travellers soft targets for cybercriminals?

Last September, British Airways reported a data breach involving details of 380,000 financial transactions. Two months later, a cyberattack on the Marriott Hotel group compromised the guest reservation database of over 500 million people. The database included payment details, passport numbers, names of guests, phone numbers and email addresses.

These are simply cases in point. The travel industry was the second-most attacked industry last year, accounting for 13% of reported attacks—up from the 10th position in 2017, according to the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2018 published this May.