Indian Railways data breach
The Indian Railways breach happened on October 28, 2019 and exposed 583,377 accounts. 3 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- indianrails.in
- Breach date
- October 28, 2019
- Recorded on
- January 10, 2020
- Accounts exposed
- 583,377
- Exposed data
- Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames
- Risk score
- 66 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 66 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Email addresses, Usernames.
The risk score is a guide to how dangerous a breach is, judged by the kinds of data exposed. The number of accounts is not included.
Breaches from the same period
- IndiHome (2019-11-01, 12,629,245 accounts)
- Universarium (2019-11-01, 564,962 accounts)
- Benchmark (2019-11-01, 93,343 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Indian Railways password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of November 27, 2023. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.