WATCH_DOGS 2 IRL? San Fransisco Transport Network hacked, passengers ride for free

[Master Disaster]

In something that seems like it came from a video game SFs Train networks have been hacked, all terminals were allowing passengers to ride for free and all notice boards were changed to display a notice from the hackers.

Quote

San Francisco’s transport agency has been hit by a hack attack which led to customers being able to travel for nothing.

 

The hackers have made a ransom demand of 100 Bitcoin, which amounts to about $70,000 (£56,000 ; €66,000).

 

As a precaution, staff shut off all ticketing machines on the network.

 

Computers across the city’s transport network, including at stations, were disabled with screens displaying a message from the attackers.

 

The message read: "You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted. Contact For Key(cryptom27@yandex.com)ID:681 ,Enter”.

 

Yandex is a Russian internet company that, among other things, provides email and social networking tools.

 

The trains themselves were not affected - and city officials said a full investigation was underway.

While safety of customers was never compromised there are fears for the employees as many terminals that are used by employees as well as ones which are used to store employee records and payroll were also hacked during the attack

Quote

"There has been no impact to the transit service, to our safety systems or to our customer's personal information,” a spokesman told the BBC.

 

"The incident remains under investigation, so it wouldn't be appropriate to provide any additional details at this point."

 

The Municipal Transportation Agency - known as Muni - looks after trains, trams and buses around the city, including San Francisco's iconic cable cars.

 

On Sunday, ticketing machines were back up - but it was not clear if the hack had been contained.

 

San Francisco news site Hoodline told the BBC the hacker had provided a list of machines he or she claimed to have infected in Muni's network - more than 2,000 in total.

 

It appeared to include many employee terminals as well as machines that may be used to look after payroll and employees’ personal information.

 

The hacker told Hoodline on Sunday that Muni had “one more day” to make a deal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38127096

 

You see Lizard Squad, that is how to do a public hack, not your script kiddy BS.

 

Seriously though, pretty impressive they were able to cause such mayhem so easily. Perhaps Aiden and Marcus are watching us all right now?

[alexyy]

Of all the dumb stuff hackers have done this one is actually brilliant, fair play.

[Master Disaster]

4 minutes ago, alexyy said:

Of all the dumb stuff Lizard Squad have done this one is actually brilliant, fair play.

Huh? This wasn't done by them?

[snamakool123]

In time with WatchDogs_2

[Trik'Stari]

 

[Master Disaster]

50 minutes ago, snamakool123 said:

In time with WatchDogs_2

You can't help but think the location & timing were chosen on purpose.

[alexyy]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Huh? This wasn't done by them?

Whoops, was half asleep.

[GooDBoY920]

It could be a paid advertisement from Ubisoft.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Hackers doing something beneficial for general community people? and against government,  that's a first!

[VerticalDiscussions]

[AndrewBit]

It kind of look like Ubisoft might be involved...

[NumLock21]

Technology sucks. Time to go back to pen and paper. Much safer and no one can 'hack' that.

 

[goodtofufriday]

It could be that one computer was hit with crypto software. If all the computers on that network were set to find each other and share a common drive then crypto could spread to each terminal. (this would be stupid but let's just say it was) 

Once the guy found what got caught in his net he then played it up as hacking the transit network. 

All crypto does it encrypt. Unless his virus was modified he doesn't have any files himself,  just the key to unlock what was encrypted. 

 

So if my theory is right,  he's just a script kiddie who got lucky. And the metro lines shut down their payment terminals to be safe. As a result rides were free. 

[Doobeedoo]

Neat, hackers taking notes from games

[Magnetorheological]

It turns out to be clever marketing on Ubisoft's part. (they have an office in SF too)

[Bleedingyamato]

16 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Technology sucks. Time to go back to pen and paper. Much safer and no one can 'hack' that.

 

Of course you can: it's called white out.  lol

 

Or for pencil and paper: an eraser.  ?