Editing Identity theft (section)

=== International ===

In March 2014, after it was learned two passengers with stolen passports were on board [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 370]], which went missing on 8 March 2014. It came to light that [[Interpol]] maintains a database of 40 million lost and stolen travel documents from 157 countries, which Interpol makes available to governments and the public, including airlines and hotels. The Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database, however, is rarely used. ''Big News Network'' (which is based in the [[UAE]]) reported that Interpol Secretary-General [[Ronald Noble|Ronald K. Noble]] told a forum in [[Abu Dhabi]] in the previous month, "The bad news is that, despite being incredibly cost-effective and deployable to virtually anywhere in the world, only a handful of countries are systematically using SLTD to screen travelers. The result is a major gap in our global security apparatus that is left vulnerable to exploitation by criminals and terrorists."<ref name="InterpolSLTD">{{cite news|title=Airlines and governments not checking stolen passports register|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10686319/Interpol-warned-of-danger-posed-by-stolen-passports.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/10686319/Interpol-warned-of-danger-posed-by-stolen-passports.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=11 September 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>