Criminals publish data of 8.7m people after airports hack

"People should be alert to scammers reusing the data and so knowing details such as phone numbers and car registration numbers," he added.

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Unusually, the cyber criminals' website where the MAG data is available is hosted on the clear internet and not on the dark net like most other so-called hacker "leak sites".