Travel & Transit Apps · Transit (rail) · Data breach
Amtrak
Headline
The April 2026 Amtrak breach was attributed to ShinyHunters - the same group behind the campaign documented as this tracker's biggest connective thread, which reached more than a thousand organisations through social…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
The April 2026 Amtrak breach was attributed to ShinyHunters - the same group behind the campaign documented as this tracker's biggest connective thread, which reached more than a thousand organisations through social engineering and OAuth abuse rather than any technical exploit. Rail passenger data is distinctive: a booking is a confirmed physical movement between two specific points at a specific time, with a name attached, which is a travel pattern rather than a purchase record. For Mid-Atlantic riders on the Northeast Corridor, that pattern is often a commute, meaning the dataset describes where someone lives and works.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected; as a federally-chartered corporation (Amtrak is technically the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, majority government-owned), some claims against Amtrak may be subject to different federal-entity legal procedures than a purely private company.
Data sharing
MAJOR, VERY RECENT BREACH (April 2026): the ShinyHunters extortion group (the SAME group behind the Panera Bread, Air France/KLM, Workday, 7-Eleven, and CarMax breaches documented elsewhere in this tracker) claimed responsibility for breaching Amtrak, typically by first compromising an organization's SALESFORCE customer-data platform. The leaked dataset (added to Have I Been Pwned April 17, 2026) contains OVER 2.1 MILLION unique accounts — names, emails, physical addresses, and customer SUPPORT RECORDS (which can reveal travel habits, preferences, and past complaints, giving attackers additional context for targeted phishing); some reports suggested the dataset could total as many as 9.4 MILLION records, though Amtrak has not confirmed the full scope as of this research.
Fees and billing
Not itemized this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
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| Privacy policy amtrak.com/privacy-policy | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service amtrak.com/terms-and-conditions | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.