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2021 Russian Railways — 700K employees, 1.3M passengers

2021 2.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Employee and passenger personal data

Technical writeup

Within 18 months: 700K employee records and 1.3M passenger records leaked. Hacker LMonoceros accessed network via unprotected router; 20K+ unsecured devices. Sapsan train Wi-Fi hacked in 20 min.

Root cause

Misconfiguration; default router credentials

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