Railways denies data breach

The railways has denied claims of a suspected data breach from servers of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). The railways said in a statement, "In this connection, it may be submitted that Railway Board had shared a possible data breach incident alert of CERT-In to IRCTC reporting a data breach pertaining to Indian Railways passengers.

"On analysis of sample data, it is found that the sample data key pattern does not match with IRCTC history API. Reported/suspected data breach is not from the IRCTC servers."

The railways, however, announced that it had initiated an investigation on the alleged breach.