In March 2014 , after it was learned two passengers with stolen passports were on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which went missing on March 8 , 2014 , it came to light that Interpol maintains a database of 40 million lost and stolen travel documents from 157 countries which it makes available to governments and the public , including airlines and hotels . The Stolen and Lost Travel Documents ( SLTD ) database however is little used . '' Big News Network '' which is based in the UAE , observed that Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble told a forum in Abu Dhabi the previous month this was the case . " 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 , " Noble is quoted as saying
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Identity theft