The hackers posted messages such as long delayed because of
cyberattack" or canceled" on the boards. They also urged passengers
to call for information, listing the phone number of the office of the
country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The semiofficial Fars news agency reported that the hack led
to unprecedented chaos at rail stations.
No group took responsibility. Earlier in the day, Fars said
trains across Iran had lost their electronic tracking system. It wasn't
immediately clear if that was also part of the cyberattack.
Fars later removed its report and instead quoted the
spokesman of the state railway company, Sadegh Sekri, as saying the disruption
did not cause any problem for train services.
In 2019, an error in the railway company's computer servers
caused multiple delays in train services.
In December that year, Iran's telecommunications ministry
said the country had defused a massive cyberattack on unspecified electronic
infrastructure but provided no specifics on the purported attack.
It was not clear if the reported attack caused any damage or
disruptions in Iran's computer and internet systems, and whether it was the
latest chapter in the U.S. and Iran's cyber operations targeting the other.
Iran disconnected much of its infrastructure from the
internet after the Stuxnet computer virus widely believed to be a joint
US-Israeli creation disrupted thousands of Iranian centrifuges in the country's
nuclear sites in the late 2000s.
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