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Old Feb 2, 2019, 5:44 am
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Originally Posted by SK2751
It may make sense. We don't know which interface has been used to hack the account. Also S* awards allow to spend the points in the part of the world where SK has no presence - it may be hard to cancel these reservations and prosecute the travelers.
That's actually rather easy, as it is a 117 ticket. If SK knows that it was issued fraudulently, they hold the ticket. They can just cancel it.

The trick can be to react in time if the hackers make last minute bookings
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