AN ALLEGED hacker has been arrested after the Nightsleeper-style “abuse” of wifi services at some of Britain’s biggest train stations.
An employee of Global Reach Technology – which provides some wifi services to Network Rail – is being accused of hacking the system to display Islamophobic messaging.
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British Transport Police (BTP) officers received reports about 5pm regarding “the defacement of splash pages”.
A serious security breach had the Network Rail sites telling users about apparent attacks on Europe in a phone pop up.
It was a web page with the headline “We love you Europe”, followed by information about the terror incidents in the UK in a message branded as Islamophobic.
The attack on Wednesday evening has been compared to the BBC’s latest thriller Nightsleeper, which features a sleeper train travelling from Glasgow to London that is then hacked and hijacked.
The suspected cyber criminal was on Thursday night “arrested on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and offences under the Malicious Communications Act 1988”, the BTP announced.
Cops say no-one’s personal data came under threat during the incident.
