Passenger Trains > Amtrak Guest Rewards Security Breach

“On the evening of April 16, 2020, Amtrak determined that an unknown third party gained unauthorized access to certain Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts,” (an Amtrak statement) noted. “We have determined that compromised usernames and passwords were used to access certain accounts and some personal information may have been viewed. No financial data, credit card information or Social Security numbers were compromised.”

The statement claimed that Amtrak’s IT security team terminated the unauthorized access “within a few hours,” reset passwords for affected accounts and hired outside security experts to contain the incident and put safeguards in place.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/amtrak-guest-rewards-breach

Sample AMTRAK LETTER regarding security breach (PDF format):

https://ago.vermont.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020-05-29-Amtrak-SBN-to-Consumers.pdf

Those receiving the actual letter from Amtrak can get a one-year subscription to Experian IdentityWorks, paid for by Amtrak. The letter contains your authorization code and instructions.



Edited 8 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/20 14:33 by GenePoon.