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Although to be fair, BA doesn’t exactly help itself.
For example, for me, if I log into my BA account, look at my personal information, then log out. If I then log in as another person in the household, then go to personal information, I see my’s information there.
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Basically a security nightmare; seems their session cookie management is broken. Do others see this?
Please tell BA and at the same time the ICO https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/ . This is a serious data protection breach, not just a glitch in the matrix. If their cookie mamangement is broken it could leak a lot more information
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