Friday, 24 March, 2023

Railyatri: Indian ticketing platform leaves data of 7,00,000 passengers unsecured

<p>Online ticketing platform &ndash; Railyatri &ndash; has reportedly exposed personal data of 700K passengers. The total data loss of 43GB includes names, phone numbers, email IDs, ticket booking details, and partial credit/debit card numbers. A team of researchers at Safety Detectives &ndash; a cybersecurity company &ndash; spotted an unsecured server that could have given access to the entire database. The server, after the security team contacted CERT-In, was silently closed.</p>