Hackers be lwa nvloedden American train service

A cyber attack on the systems of a U.s. carrier had the consequence that a railway service in the northwest of the United States was disrupted. That would appear from a report of the American transportwaakhond.

The attack took place in december and resulted in treinsignalen on a track two days were disrupted, writes Nextgov. The site claims to be a report of a meeting of the Transportation Security Administration about the incident in your hands.

As a result of the incident would be on december 1, the trains of a carrier in the northwest for fifteen minutes delayed. A day later it was also an ‘incident’, but that caused no problems.

The report mentions the serious hackers managed to traffic to disrupt. Researchers have three different ip-addresses of attackers, which are referred to as ‘intruders’, can figure out. Found the hack from abroad. The TSA has also other carriers will be informed. That would still not adequately prepared for this kind of attacks, says the memo.

A spokesperson of the Us department for homeland security has, according to Nextgov indicated that it may not be a targeted attack. Maybe it was not the intention of the train service disruption.