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National Belgian Railway Company

National Belgian Railway Company Data Breach (2012)

National Belgian Railway Company

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Disclosed

December 1, 2012

4864 days ago

Records

1.4M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Human Error

Industry

Transportation

Description

SNCB Europe put by mistake on their public HTTP server a text file with 1.4M records of their customers. Including name, address, email, birthdate, sexe, even phone numbers in some cases. That file got indexed by Google and Bing and a user found it and posted the link on a forum.