Eurail’s ‘Data Breach Express’ Now Boarding on the Dark Web!

Oh for fuck’s sake. Eurail, those bastions of European rail travel, have only gone and lost an entire fucking database of customer data. And by ‘lost’ I mean ‘gift-wrapped and handed to some twat on the dark web’ who’s now flogging it like a dodgy ticket scalper outside Gare du Nord.

According to these morons, they spotted “suspicious activity” back on August 30th—because apparently a data breach looks like someone wearing a fake moustache and dark glasses—and promptly took systems offline. They hired a forensics firm, which in corporate speak means “we paid someone else to tell us how spectacularly we fucked up.” The result? A masterpiece of bullshit: they initially claimed only 926 email addresses were nabbed. Spoiler alert: that number was just for ONE FUCKING DAY.

Turns out the real haul is a proper treasure trove of personal information that some wanker called ‘drakee’ is now selling on BreachForums. We’re talking names, emails, phone numbers, passport numbers, genders, dates of birth, train journey details, and partial credit card numbers. Basically everything you need to steal someone’s identity and book yourself a nice holiday to Barcelona on their dime. The files total about 1.4MB of pure customer misery, covering July and August 2024.

Eurail’s response? Classic corporate diarrhoea: “We immediately implemented additional safeguards.” Yeah, immediately meaning three fucking months later after some script kiddie was already auctioning off your customers’ passport numbers. They’re now “contacting affected customers directly”—translation: sending a grovelling email with a year’s free credit monitoring that’ll be about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

The cherry on this shit sundae? The data is sitting there in plain text files, pipe-delimited like someone actually gives a fuck about formatting while they’re robbing you blind. Eurail says they can’t confirm the exact number of victims because apparently counting is fucking hard when you’ve left the database unlocked and the windows wide open.

The full story: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/eurail-says-stolen-traveler-data-now-up-for-sale-on-dark-web/

It’s like the time I told a user their “personal files had been temporarily redistributed for enhanced security” after they clicked a phishing link for the third time that month. At least I had the decency to mock them to their face while I wiped their machine. These bastards can’t even manage a proper apology without a lawyer shitting it out for them.

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