The datalek on the site of the Belgian carrier SNCB would have been caused by a human error, writes a Walloon newspaper. An employee would be at a certain time on the ‘wrong button’ have been printed. Friday presents the NMBS his findings.
At the datalek on the website of the NMBS were according to internal research of the carrier, which the newspaper La Libre Belgique, for its information, data of around 700,000 travelers are publicly accessible. NBMS puts the results on Friday to the Commission, a Belgian public authority. It is unclear whether the results then made public.
The cause of the datalek is according to the internal investigation which La Libre Belgique himself says, to base a ‘human error’. An employee would be “at the wrong time on the wrong button’ have been printed, making all information accessible to the public proved to be. Why this is no one within the organization has been noticed, is unclear.
The leak in the website of the carrier came in december to the front. In the leaked data were the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of customers of the carrier.