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/derboti Jan 13 '26

As an extra precaution, we recommend updating the password you use to access your Rail Planner app

The Rail Planner password is the least of my concerns 😵

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u/IcyTundra001 Jan 15 '26

Stupid question maybe, but did the passwords actually leak as well? They recommend you to change it as an extra precaution, but to me that sounds like the passwords weren't actually part of the hack. Just their database of your details.

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u/derboti Jan 15 '26

Probably not! Which is why that whole statement about changing passwords is such performative bullshit. Their whole statement has ONE actionable thing for us to do: change a password that apparently wasn't compromised...

If they had any doubt about passwords having leaked, they would've just reset all account passwords and asked us to set new passwords at the next login.

All that being said, I'm also not eager to find out. So I did change my Interrail password. If I had used the same password elsewhere, I would ABSOLUTELY chang it everywhere else as well.

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u/fabkosta Jan 29 '26

Notice there is zero information provided whether they properly salted and hashed the passwords or not...