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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK technology editor

Some Interrail travellers told to cancel passports as hacked data posted online

Passengers on a platform at Copenhagen central station in Denmark.
Passengers at Copenhagen central station. One affected customer in Denmark said they had been obliged to cancel their passport. Photograph: Kumar Sriskandan/Alamy

Holidaymakers across Europe are facing the stress and expense of getting new passports after their personal data was posted on the dark web after a hack of the Interrail company Eurail.

Personal data, including passport numbers, names, phone numbers, email and home addresses and dates of birth of more than 300,000 European travellers was accessed in December. But this week Eurail revealed to customers that “data copied during the security incident has been offered for sale on the dark web and a sample dataset has been published on Telegram”.

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