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11 December 2014

All's fair in love and football... or is it?

Obviously not, because a die-hard Houston Texans fan who posted a photo of airline tickets to an away game on Facebook had an extremely rude awakening about online security when a rival team's fan apparently used the information to cancel them. The tickets from Houston to Jacksonville were what Alice Rodriguez considered the ultimate birthday surprise from her boyfriend when in her excitement she shared a photo of the boarding passes on the Traveling Texans Facebook page. "I was like 'Oh my God! I'm going to Jacksonville for my birthday!'" she recalled her surprise to local TV station KHOU. It was while gearing up for the big weekend trip that her boyfriend Carlos received an unexpected email from Southwest Airlines, informing them that their tickets had been mysteriously canceled. The apparent villain behind the attack was meanwhile boasting of his success online. "So these people posted their flight info on the Texans going to Jax FB page so I canceled their tix," a complete bellend who went by the Twitter name "DuvalUndertaker" posted while including a screen grab of the cancellation confirmation. The post included a hashtag for a Jacksonville Jaguars supporters group. "We had no idea what was going on, on social media or anything," said Rodriguez, who immediately went about contacting the airline and making things right. People shouldn't be doing that. But at the same time, people shouldn't be posting their flight details online unless they remove the booking numbers and any other info that can be used by some douche to screw about with their booking.

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