Carnival Corporation Data Breach Revealed a Secret Second Passenger Manifest with IDs of Ghost Passengers, Coast Guard Investigates
A technical analyst combing through Carnival Corporation’s leaked data found a hidden layer of passenger records that don’t match any living crew or guest on record. The ‘glitch’ shows over 2,000 ghost IDs—names and birth dates that appear only on sailings that were supposedly cancelled or delayed. The Coast Guard is now investigating if these phantom profiles were used to bypass passenger cap laws or to mask illegal transfers at sea.