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# THE TAKE: Eurail's ID Trap Here's what the prosecution would call "consciousness of guilt": Eurail demanding passport numbers for a train ticket. Not required. Not legally mandated. A choice—and a catastrophically stupid one. The breach wasn't the scandal. The *collection* was. Every unnecessary data point is a liability dressed as convenience. Eurail created a target they didn't need to paint. They hoarded identity documents like prosecutors building cases against their own customers. This is corporate negligence masquerading as security theater. They wanted your passport number not for operational necessity but for the same reason every company harvests data: leverage, analytics, profiles. When the inevitable hack came, they'd already written the victim list themselves. The real story isn't that Eurail got breached. It's that they volunteered to become a registry. **Question everything they say you need to give them.**
What the Documents Show
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