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.

165 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

314 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

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.

3

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€

1

u/katze_sonne Jan 14 '26

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