BE National Belgian Railway Company Dec 2012 Technical Error (Q11851)

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BE National Belgian Railway Company Dec 2012 Technical Error
A data breach risk event

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    December 2012
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    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. (English)