{"id":1213,"date":"2026-09-08T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:24:01","slug":"220-million-traveler-records-exposed-in-vietnam-linked-apis-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/220-million-traveler-records-exposed-in-vietnam-linked-apis-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database holding more than 220 million passenger and crew records, including passport numbers and flight details, was accessible online through a chain of security misconfigurations. The system appears linked to a Vietnamese organization, according to the researchers who discovered it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advance Passenger Information Systems are used worldwide to collect identity, passport, and flight information from airlines before passengers and crew arrive at or depart from a country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exposed records span January 2017 to April 2026 and could involve travelers of many nationalities who flew to, from, or through Vietnam during that period.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/220-million-traveler-records-exposed-in-vietnam-linked-apis-leak\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/220-million-traveler-records-exposed-in-vietnam-linked-apis-leak\/\">220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: 220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database holding more than 220 million passenger and crew records, including passport numbers and flight details, was accessible online through a chain of security misconfigurations. The system appears linked to a Vietnamese organization, according to the researchers who discovered it. Advance Passenger Information Systems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datalek","tag-72"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}