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Old Jan 7, 2014, 7:28 am
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Originally Posted by alex_b
...this is almost certainly not someone picking up discarded boarding passes and brute forcing the PIN.
I think that your account gets locked after three or four incorrect login attempts, so "brute forcing" (if by that you mean trying different PINs) wouldn't work very often.
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