Etihad Worker Uses System Data To WhatsApp UK Woman, Airline Apologises

The woman received the messages while waiting to board a flight from Abu Dhabi to Manchester, UK.

A 23-year-old British woman, who was returning from a holiday in Abu Dhabi, was left shocked after receiving unsolicited WhatsApp messages from a contractor working for Etihad Airways.  A guy who works for the @etihad airline used my personal data which he found via the airline database after seeing my passport to get my phone number and proceeded to text me 🥲, terrifying experience travelling alone. pic.twitter.com/qPWdg1rJlN

Taking to Twitter, Hannah Smethurst shared a screenshot showing Whatsapp messages from a United Arab Emirates (UAE) number she did not recognise. The name displayed next to the number was Muhammed. According to The Guardian, she received the messages while waiting to board a flight from Abu Dhabi to Manchester, UK. 

"A guy who works for the @etihad airline used my personal data which he found via the airline database after seeing my passport to get my phone number and proceeded to text me, terrifying experience travelling alone," Ms Smethurst wrote while sharing the screenshot of the chat. 

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