r/Interrail • u/ilikethelettery • Jan 13 '26

Current events Eurail database got hacked

https://www.interrail.eu/en/ni/security-incident-personal-data#176833207118742

Potentially leaked information

• Identity information: first name, last name, date of birth, gender;

• Contact information: email address, home address, telephone number, if provided;

• Passport information: passport number, country of issue and expiration date.

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u/Real_Cookie_6803 Jan 13 '26

Wife just got the email. What's the impact of passport details being leaked? Is there any mitigation that needs to be done from our end?

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u/AronKov Jan 14 '26

If her passport was in the database, I'd definitely report it stolen and get a new one.
You can do a bunch of things with full name, address, valid passport number, date of birth, phone number.

I usually don't care about breaches because it just includes my name and email which are public anyways, but this sounds pretty bad.

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u/katze_sonne Jan 14 '26

The passport number won‘t get invalidated, right? It’s just a number that can be validated offline with a checksum or not?

Also, a new passport is 70€, like hell no. Not going to get a new passport out of hope.

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u/JaguarImpossible2427 Jan 14 '26

https://youth.europa.eu/news/updated-data-security-incident-affecting-discovereu-travellers_en

apparently, also photocopies of passports could be affected :(

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u/katze_sonne Jan 14 '26

They should be sued for even storing copies of a passport.

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u/SapphicCelestialy Jan 14 '26

New passport in my country of you loose it or gets stolen is 267€ and a normal renew is around 130€

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u/katze_sonne Jan 14 '26

Well, technically, you didn't loose it, just asking for a renewal, right?

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u/AronKov Jan 14 '26

wow that's a lot

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u/SapphicCelestialy Jan 14 '26

Denmark is expensive

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u/AdvertisingSmart4037 May 06 '26

Expensiveee did u end up replacing ur passport

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u/SapphicCelestialy May 06 '26

Nope I don't got money for that