Bloomberg has acknowledged that reporters could see when specific clients had last logged in, their most frequently used commands on the terminal, and could even access transcripts of help-desk inquiries by users.

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Indeed, access to such a terminal may have been AirAsia's intention all along.

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Mr Rothnie said easyJet had a contract with Luton Airport guaranteeing access to the old terminal for a set fee.

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On Tuesday, Turkish gendarme units established a checkpoint blocking civilian access to the Cilvegozu border terminal.

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They can't be easily set up on multiple machines, and you certainly wouldn't be able to access your phone account on a public terminal.

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The technical means by which Bloomberg News reporters gained access to this customer information is a Bloomberg terminal function called UUID.

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