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Nearly 5 million passengers’ data leaked from online train ticketing platforms

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Dissent

Jill Shen reports:

Data thieves stole the personal information of nearly 5 million people from an unconfirmed number of Chinese online ticket reservation platforms, according to Beijing police, who arrested a suspect in the case.


According to media reports, China Railway’s (CR) official online booking platform 12306  suffered a massive data breach, with information later being sold on the dark web. Compromised data reportedly included names, ID numbers, and passwords.


CR later denied the claims in a Weibo post, saying no users’ information was hacked. However, it warned passengers to avoid booking their tickets on unauthorized third-party platforms.

Read more on TechNode.

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