Indian Railways data breach: 583K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-01-10
In November 2019, the website for Indian Rail left more than 2M records exposed on an unprotected Firebase database instance. The exposed data included 583k unique email addresses alongside usernames and passwords stored in plain text. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 28, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 10, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Indian Railways account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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