Cybercrime is rife and travel is full of bad practices
The Travel weekly and Travolution Cyber Security Summit was hosted by Natwest and sponsored by Worldpay, Syntec/Cardeasy and law firm Hill Dickinson
Cybercrime is rife in travel and the sector is subject to “a lot of bad practices”, according to the head of the travel industry’s fraud-prevention body.
Barry Gooch, chairman of Prevention of Fraud in Travel (PRoFiT), said: “There are very big frauds going on in travel. You don’t get to hear about it. But we produce a monthly report of cyber breaches and fraud – it’s going on all the time.
“There are a lot of bad practices in the industry. Fraud and cybercrime are absolutely rife.